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| | Midas, Morgan, and Maecenas |
 | | Gaius Maecenas, a man of letters from Etruria in central Italy, was a powerful man and the principal political adviser to Octavian. |
 | | Horace's letter to Maecenas is a testimony to the character of the relationship between the two men. |
 | | An important aspect of the social hierarchy at Rome was the relationship between patrons and clients, by which the patron afforded protection, legal or financial, to the less well-off client, while in return the patron received political services and social deference (Gorney). |
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