the reform programmes of Roman tribunes and hated the Roman poor. C. Maecenas from Arretium is named among the strong and stead

ore long a very different character turns up, the Etruscan magnate C. Maecenas , a diplomat and a statesman, an artist and a volu

st. 3, 83 M) is presumably a member of this family. The father was L. Maecenas (ILS 7848; cf. Nicolaus 31, 133?). Tacitus (Ann.

icipated in the venture. Only two names can be recovered, Agrippa and Maecenas . 9 NotesPage=>131 1 Phil. 2, 93, &c.

Nicolaus is correct and correctly transmitted we might have here not Maecenas but his father (so Münzer, P-W xiv, 206). About t

ageBook=>133 Roman knights in standing, Salvidienus, Agrippa and Maecenas : to the end his faction retained the mark of its

hy, cf. F. Blumenthal, Wiener Studien xxxv (1913), 280 f. Agrippa and Maecenas did not deny that Octavianus lurked in a marsh (P

where he could, an accommodation with the master of the sea. He sent Maecenas on a diplomatic mission to Sicily and gave pledge

s by Pollio, the most honest of men, for Octavianus by the diplomatic Maecenas . L. Cocceius Nerva was present, a friend of Anton

inous disaster (38 B.C.) and had to beg the help of Antonius, sending Maecenas on a mission to Greece. Antonius, who wished to h

eir journeyed to the encounter, taking a varied company that included Maecenas and L. Cocceius Nerva (still perhaps a neutral),

s met at Tarentum. Both the patience of Antonius and the diplomacy of Maecenas were exhausted. At last the mediation of Octavia

was with them and a certain Murena, presumably the brother-in-law of Maecenas , of later notoriety. 2 The accounts in Dio 48,

in sore need both of the generalship of Agrippa and the diplomacy of Maecenas . Lacking either of them he might have been lost.

n of the proscriptions. During the campaign in Sicily the presence of Maecenas had been urgently required at Rome; 3 and there h

lculable odds. He had loyal and unscrupulous friends like Agrippa and Maecenas , a nucleus of support already from certain famili

ices of three friends. Agrippa held the praetorship in that year, but Maecenas and Salvidienus were not even senators. Again, at

the soldier and engineer, were solid and visible: the other minister Maecenas had been working more quietly and to set purpose.

as ensnared by more powerful and perhaps more seductive influences. 2 Maecenas , whose aesthetic tastes were genuine and varied,

counsel and subsidy. Virgil passed into the company and friendship of Maecenas . Before long his poems were made public (38 or 37

of Maecenas. Before long his poems were made public (38 or 37 B.C.). Maecenas encouraged him to do better. The mannered frivoli

als of Antonius, the peace of Brundisium and the end of all the wars. Maecenas hoped to employ Virgil’s art in the service of Ca

religious and patriotic vein. Virgil was not the only discovery of Maecenas . Virgil with short delay had introduced Horace to

of Octavianus at least Terentilla is presumably Terentia, the wife of Maecenas , not unknown to subsequent scandal. 3 Pliny, NH

aurus; and it may fairly be conjectured that no opposition confronted Maecenas at Arretium, where his ancestors had ruled as kin

nd Spain, L. Autronius Paetus (or another) was proconsul of Africa. 5 Maecenas controlled Rome and Italy, invested with supreme

re had been a plot—or so it was alleged. It was suppressed at once by Maecenas . 2 The author was a son of the relegated Lepidus:

er of Cornelius Balbus. 4 As for Murena, he was the brother-in-law of Maecenas . 5 NotesPage=>325 1 ILS 893. 2 Dio 51, 2

f freedom: the chief men of his party were there, Agrippa, Taurus and Maecenas , to prevent any trouble. PageNote. 331 (No No

sition of his autobiography, a work suitably dedicated to Agrippa and Maecenas . In his absence, the two legates in Spain (C. Ant

ief. Murena was the brother of Terentia, the wife of the all-powerful Maecenas . Yet neither Maecenas nor Murena’s half- brother,

other of Terentia, the wife of the all-powerful Maecenas. Yet neither Maecenas nor Murena’s half- brother, the virtuous and disi

rew complicated, acute and menacing. The principal actors were Livia, Maecenas and Agrippa. Augustus could not afford to alienat

oon made known. The result was a defeat for Augustus and probably for Maecenas as well. Between the Princeps’ two steadfast alli

though towards a popular entertainer. Despite such powerful advocacy, Maecenas , like another personal friend of the Princeps, Ve

mory of his services and the sake of his counsel. Yet the position of Maecenas had been compromised. He could not withstand Agri

ion of Maecenas had been compromised. He could not withstand Agrippa. Maecenas made a fatal mistake he told Terentia of the dang

notorious charms which the poet Horace has so candidly depicted. 5 Maecenas might be dropped, but not Agrippa; and so Agrippa

uminate his account of the settlement of 28 and 27 B.C he allotted to Maecenas the advocacy of monarchy, republicanism to Agripp

er’s exploits. 5 Nor did Agrippa speak for himself. Like the subtle Maecenas and the hard-headed Livia Drusilla, he kept his s

umvirate was ready to hand, in the complementary figures of Augustus, Maecenas and Agrippa. To attach the loyalty of the soldier

lled to guide and even create the manifestation of suitable opinions. Maecenas was there. Again, Augustus had neither the taste

al distaste both Augustus’ own equestrian grandfather and his friends Maecenas and Proculeius furnished palpable evidence. Again

the Princeps and behaved as such. 2 NotesPage=>365 1 Dio makes Maecenas advise Augustus to bring into the Senate of Rome

bers of the reigning dynasty, by prominent partisans like Agrippa and Maecenas , and by other adherents like the obscure admiral

ius. 7 Spacious pleasure-gardens attested the wealth and splendour of Maecenas and Sallustius Crispus, mere knights in standing.

26 B.C. Taurus was consul, it is true; but the authority of Agrippa, Maecenas and Livia, who ruled Rome in secret, knew no name

ps and husband of Julia, died. The widow was consigned to Agrippa. As Maecenas his enemy put it, there was no choice: Augustus m

polite homage. Agrippa was gone, Taurus perhaps was dead by now; and Maecenas , no longer a power in politics, had a short time

st Proculeius, remained within their station. The greatest of all was Maecenas . After 23 B.C. Maecenas gradually lost ground. Wh

astes of his great-uncle, the Sabine historian and moralist. Like the Maecenas of earlier days, the subtle Sallustius concealed

crior quo somnum et inertiam magis ostentabat. ’ PageBook=>410 Maecenas had suppressed the conspiracy of young Lepidus: i

d the artistic dissemination of opinion favourable to the government, Maecenas knew no peer and left no successor. In the same y

ent, Maecenas knew no peer and left no successor. In the same year as Maecenas , Horace died: Virgil had gone eleven years before

wn hard and bitter with age; and Sallustius Crispus, the successor of Maecenas , was perhaps lacking in tact and skill. Whateve

dly lamented the loss of his two most trusty counsellors, Agrippa and Maecenas : had they lived, certain things would never have

a, De ben. 6, 32, 2: ‘horum mihi nihil accidisset, si aut Agrippa aut Maecenas vixisset. ’ Seneca’s comment is instructive and c

ong the intimate friends of Augustus were to be found characters like Maecenas , childless and vicious yet uxorious, and the unsp

in the contests of the Triumviral period. Augustus’ chief of cabinet, Maecenas , captured the most promising of the poets at an e

such unreserved eulogies of the New State as were Virgil and Horace. Maecenas also took up Propertius, a young Umbrian in whom

oet had eminent connexions, the Aelii Galli, and influential friends, Maecenas and the Volcacii, a Perusine family of consular s

as not untouched by the patriotic theme, or the repeated instances of Maecenas . For all his dislike of war, he could turn away f

ad. Propertius might have been a highly remunerative investment for Maecenas . He died young or abandoned the art altogether. O

d sat there. 2 He did not need to make a speech. Such was auctoritas. Maecenas and Sex. Appuleius (a relative of the Princeps) h

endid and pompous oratory of M. Antonius, the fantastical conceits of Maecenas and the perverse archaism of Tiberius. In writing

t fear. Bathyllus, the popular and disreputable actor, a favourite of Maecenas , was an easy target. The more eminent were not im

rivilege and station of the living Vedius Pollio with his fish-ponds, Maecenas in princely gardens, Titius and Quirinius acquiri

f the New State, namely the Princeps himself and his allies, Agrippa, Maecenas and Livia, history and scandal have preserved a s

batius Pollio, M., quaestor of Antonius, 196. Bathyllus, favourite of Maecenas , 342, 486. Bellum Italicum, 16 f., 22, 28, 86 f

ader of Roman troops, 201. Machares, name in the Pontic dynasty, 201. Maecenas , C, opponent of Livius Drusus, 89. Maecenas, part

the Pontic dynasty, 201. Maecenas, C, opponent of Livius Drusus, 89. Maecenas , partisan of Sertorius, 129. Maecenas, C., 129,

pponent of Livius Drusus, 89. Maecenas, partisan of Sertorius, 129. Maecenas , C., 129, 131; diplomatic missions of, 213, 217,

death, 409, 412; his wife Terentia, 277, 341; name and origin, 129. Maecenas , L., 129, 132. Magistracies, access to, 11 ff.;

’ repairs, 447. Terentia, wife of Cicero, 24, 69. Terentia, wife of Maecenas , 277, 334, 358; beauty of, 342; scandal about, 27

54. Vergilius Maro, P., relations with Pollio, 218 f., 252 f.; with Maecenas , 253, 460; at Tarentum, 225; the Eclogues, 253; t

341, 343 f; Republicanism, 343, 413; disliked by nobiles, 344; hates Maecenas , 341; relations with Tiberius, 344; honours decli