Mæcenas, a wealthy Roman statesman, celebrated for his patronage of letters; was the friend and adviser of Augustus Cæsar, and the patron of Virgil and Horace; claimed descent from the ancient Etruscan kings; left the most of his property to Augustus; d. 8 B.C.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Mæander * Maelström