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Gaius Cilnius Maecenas
Maecenas
Augustus's confidant and patron of letters, here cited for a mannered, over-refined prose style ('the curling-irons of Maecenas').
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Maecenas
Augustus's confidant and patron of letters, here cited for a mannered, over-refined prose style ('the curling-irons of Maecenas').