11. Around 1640 a certain George Clifford, the maecenas of Carl von Linn?the Swedish botanist. 12. Octavian seized the opportunity and had his minister Gaius Maecenas produce a propaganda campaign against Antony. 13. Agrippa and Maecenas are both dead. 14. He was very cultured, renowned as an excellent translator of Sallust and a true Maecenas . 15. Maecenas dictum convallis nulla sed auctor.16. Why Bruckner has chosen this unsound text for the name-day of his Maecenas remains unexplained. 17. A dying Marcus tells Octavianus that Decius is the " other Brutus . " Maecenas then has Octavianus arrested. 18. Worried about her future Julia writes a letter to Agrippa ( via Maecenas ) begging him to return home. 19. Octavian's ally Gaius Maecenas forestalled a conspiracy allegedly organised by Principate as the first Roman " emperor ". 20. It is likely however that he came to the attention of Augustus through his mother's connection with Maecenas .