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Maecenas ‎(plural Maecenases)

A generous benefactor; specifically, a patron of literature or art.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 329:
  The government [...] maintained one of the largest armies in Europe; it developed what became, by the 1780s, a navy as big as the British; and it played the role of cultural Maecenas.
- 1920, Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy vol. III, p. 19:
  [...] thou art his dear and loving friend, good and gracious Lord and Master, his Maecenas.

Maecenas ‎(plural Maecenases)

A generous benefactor; specifically, a patron of literature or art.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 329:
  The government [...] maintained one of the largest armies in Europe; it developed what became, by the 1780s, a navy as big as the British; and it played the role of cultural Maecenas.
- 1920, Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy vol. III, p. 19:
  [...] thou art his dear and loving friend, good and gracious Lord and Master, his Maecenas.