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Gaius Maecenas
Maecenas
Augustus's wealthy confidant and the patron of Virgil and Horace; proverbial for luxury and a mannered prose style. Seneca elsewhere mocks his diction; here he quotes his quip about being scolded 'to the tune of ten million sesterces.'
Reading notes
- On Benefits §4.36.2 Maecenas
Augustus's confidant and famed patron of poets; quoted for his quip about not letting himself be scolded 'to the tune of ten million sesterces.'
- On Benefits §6.32.2 Maecenas
Augustus's confidant and patron of poets; with Agrippa, the friend whose loss Augustus felt could not be made good.
- On Providence §3.10 Maecenas
Gaius Maecenas, Augustus's wealthy minister and patron of poets; here the type of the luxurious man whose pampered sleeplessness Seneca sets against Regulus's noble suffering.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §2.19.9 Maecenas
Gaius Maecenas (d. 8 BC), Augustus's confidant and the great patron of Virgil and Horace, notorious for a soft, luxurious life and a mannered, overwrought prose style, which Seneca repeatedly mocks as 'drunken.'
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §19.114.4 Maecenas
Gaius Maecenas (d. 8 BC), Augustus's great minister and the patron of Virgil and Horace; proverbial for luxury and a mannered, foppish prose — Seneca's prime exhibit that style mirrors character.