| The domestic life of Maecenas was unhappy. |
| A former Whitehall insider who has seen the Maecenas Men at work confirms that a single member of the panel can exercise a veto. |
| The toughening of the Augustan regime and the fading influence of the mediating Maecenas was having its effect. |
| Balbus sent a story to Maecenas, who replied that he hoped to use it in due course. |
| Neither is the EU a naïve Maecenas, who pays up once the United States has done the dirty work. |
| And if not to Maecenas, so neither to Maecenas' master, would he sacrifice his freedom. |
