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Maecenas

Gaius Zilniy Maecenas

Phraseologism: Maecenas.

Meaning: Patron of people of art, science.

Origin: Named after the wealthy Roman patrician Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (between 74 and 64 - 8 BC), who patronized artists and poets. His attention and generosity to people of art were praised in their poems by the Roman poets Horace, Virgil, Propertius and others. For example, Martial (40-102 BC), in one of his epigrams addressed to Flaccus, wrote: , Patrons, there will be no shortage of Maroons, "that is, poets (Virgil's full name is Virgil Maron).

Random phraseology:

We are Kalutsky, it will not reach us.

Meaning:

We live far from the front (in Kaluga, Tambov, etc. provinces), the enemy (war) will not reach us, therefore, this war does not concern us.

Origin:

A phrase popular in Russia at the beginning of the 1th century as an analogue of the well-known European expression, the patriotism of the bell tower. The phrase is a symbol of "parochial patriotism", an undeveloped civic feeling (iron.). General A. I. Denikin about the Russian army during the First World War ("Essays on Russian Troubles", vol. I, ch. XNUMX): "The armed people", which was, in essence, the army, inspired by victory, lost heart in defeat, poorly understood the need to cross the Carpathians. A little more - the struggle in Styr and Pripyat, but still comforted himself with the hope: "We are Tambov, the German will not reach us ..." I have to repeat this rather hackneyed phrase, because it contains the deep psychology of a Russian person.

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