Murena found neither his brother Proculeius nor Mæcenas his sister's husband of any avail, though they were the recipients of distinguished honors from Augustus.
Mæcenas was then able to banish his anger and to lead him into a gentler frame of mind.
The Mæcenas of Thagaste, after his ostentatious expenditure, found that his fortune was threatened.
It will be remembered that the Mæcenas of Thagaste had taken up warmly the plan of a lay monastery which Augustin and his friends had lost their heads over, and he had promised to subscribe a large sum.
Romanianus, the Mæcenas of Thagaste, who was doubtless applied to by her, came once more to the rescue of the hard-up student.
This son of Romanianus, the Mæcenas of Thagaste, was Augustin's beloved pupil.
Bourges then possessed a Mæcenas in the person of a merchant (son of a tradesman of the city) whose ships covered the sea.
Virgil recited with a marvellous grace, and sweet accent of voice, but his lungs failing him, Mæcenas himself supplied his place for what remained.
Mæcenas bequeathed his villa to Augustus, and Tiberius at one time resided in it.
Pollio remained a steadfast friend, and Augustus and Mæcenas took him under their protection.
The two poets were close friends, and Horace mentions Virgil as being in the party which accompanied Mæcenas from Rome to Brundisium about the year 41 B.
Mæcenas introduced him to Augustus, who, according to Suetonius, offered him a place in his own household, which the poet prudently declined.
The liberality of Mæcenas and Augustus had enriched him, and he left a considerable property and a house on the Esquiline Hill.
Mæcenas cleared the land and beautified it with gardens, but still the witches came by stealth to their old haunts.
The Bore hesitated, considered what the loss of the suit must cost him, and what he might gain by pushing his acquaintance with the friend of Mæcenas and Augustus.
He and his two great friends, Caius Cilnius Mæcenas and Vipsanius Agrippa, both had a great esteem for scholarship and poetry, and in especial the house of Mæcenas was always open to literary men.
According to Aubrey, he was "the greatest Mæcenas to learned men of any peer of his time or since.
This feature is taken from Lucian, and the character of the luxurious Mæcenas would have gained in interest and nobility if this trait had been impressed upon us earlier in the play.
Then the American Mæcenas sometimes, after ordering a work, has been known to change his mind when the statue is already modelled.
Beside this romantic idea about letting artists suffer to develop their genius, the American Mæcenas is not sufficiently aware of the expenses attendant on producing the work he wants.
Who is your Mæcenas now, or Proculeius, or Fabius?
Meantime some of his poems attracted the notice of Varius and Virgil, who introduced him to Mæcenas (B.
Mæcenas hastened thither from Rome, and succeeded once more in concluding an amicable arrangement.
Mæcenas bestowed upon the poet a Sabine farm, sufficient to maintain him in ease, comfort, and even in content, during the rest of his life.
At Feronia the passengers left the boat, washed their faces and hands, and crawled onward three miles up to the heights of Anxur, where Mæcenas and others joined the party.
This the hypochondriacal invalid Mæcenas bought, and there he laid out a garden and erected a lofty house surmounted by a tower commanding a view of the city and vicinity.
Returning to Rome, he attracted notice by his verses, and became a friend of Mæcenas and Virgil, the former of whom bestowed upon him a farm sufficient to sustain him.
Mæcenas was placed in command at Rome, Agrippa took the fleet, and the consul himself the land forces.
He did not hasten back to Rome, where he knew that Mæcenas and Agrippa were faithfully attending to his interests, but occupied himself another year away from the capital in regulating the affairs of his new province.
At that time and during the early years of the empire, a Mæcenas surrounded himself with authors and stimulated them to put forth all their vigor in the effort to create a native literature.
It was at the instigation of Mæcenas that Virgil wrote his most finished work, the agricultural poem entitled Georgica, which was completed after the battle of Actium (B.
Thou hast small notion, meseems, O Mæcenas Twiddledee, of what a Man of Genius is.
Man of Genius:' O Mæcenas Twiddledee, hast thou any notion what a Man of Genius is?
The saddest of it all is that Mæcenas was first unhappy through his own fault.
But I, thou muse of mine, would not change thee for any Mæcenas or any Cæsar.
This last allusion is to a new phase of the queer patronage which the good Mæcenas extended to our Concord poet.
From this time onward a warm friendship continued between Thoreau and Greeley, and many letters went to and fro, which reveal the able editor in the light of a modern Mæcenas to the author of the Musketaquid Georgics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cenas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
