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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Mecenas, n. [e.m.E. (1561), L. Mæcēnās, name of the Roman knight, patron of Horace and Virgil.] A generous patron. —1595 Colville Lett. 270.
As one of your awin creaturis … whom I have chosen to be my Mecenas and lodsman
