Gaius Maecenas
Roman political advisor (d. 8 BC)
Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (13 April 68 BC – 8 BC) was a friend and political advisor to Octavian (who later reigned as emperor Augustus). He was also an important patron for the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil. During the reign of Augustus, Maecenas served as a quasi-culture minister to the Roman emperor but in spite of his wealth and power he chose not to enter the Senate, remaining of equestrian rank.
Quotes
edit- Lucentes, mea vita, nec smaragdos,
beryllos neque, Flacce mi, nitentes
<nec> percandida margarita quaero
nec quos Tunnica[1] lima perpolivit
anellos[2] nec[3] iaspios lapillos.- ???
- Quoted by Isidore, Etymologiae, XIX, 32, 6 (tr. ???)
- Ipsa enim altitudo attonat summa.
- Nec tumulum curo. Sepelit natura relictos.
- Debilem facito manu, debilem pede, coxo,[4]
tuber adstrue gibberum, lubricos quate dentis:
vita dum superest, bene est.
About
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edit- Emil Baehrens, ed. Fragmenta Poetarum Romanorum (Leipzig, 1886), p. 338
- W. M. Lindsay, ed. Isidori: Etymologiarum sive Originum, Vol. 2 (Oxford, 1911)
- H. W. Garrod, ed. The Oxford Book of Latin Verse (Oxford, 1912), no. 108
- C. E. Bennett, Horace: The Odes and Epodes (LCL, 1912), p. 2
- R. M. Gummere, ed. Seneca: Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol. 1 (LCL, 1917), p. 130
- R. M. Gummere, ed. Seneca: Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol. 2 (LCL, 1920), p. 470
- R. M. Gummere, ed. Seneca: Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Vol. 3 (LCL, 1925), p. 164
- "Gaius Cilnius Maecenas", PHI Latin Texts. The Packard Humanities Institute.