Maecenas

Meaning

Noun

A generous benefactor; specifically, a patron of literature or art.

Origin

From Middle French mecenas, and its source, Latin Maecēnās, from the name of Gaius Maecenas, Roman statesman and patron of Horace and Virgil.

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