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MANILIUS , a See also:

Roman poet, author of a poem in five books called Astronomica. The author is neither quoted nor mentioned by any See also:ancient writer. Even his name is uncertain, but it was probably See also:Marcus Manilius; in the earlier See also:MSS. the author is See also:anonymous, the later give Manilius, See also:Manlius, Mallius. The poem itself implies that the writer lived under See also:Augustus or Tiberius, and that he was a See also:citizen of and See also:resident in See also:Rome. According to R. See also:Bentley he was an See also:Asiatic See also:Greek; according to F. See also:Jacob an See also:African. His See also:work is one of See also:great learning; he had studied his subject in the best writers, and generally represents the most advanced views of the ancients on See also:astronomy (or rather See also:astrology). He frequently imitates See also:Lucretius, whom he resembles in earnestness and originality and in the See also:power of enlivening the dry bones of his subject. Although his diction presents some peculiarities, the See also:style is metrically correct. See also:Firmicus, who wrote in the See also:time of See also:Constantine, exhibits so many points of resemblance with the work of Manilius that he must either have used him or have followed some work that Manilius also followed. As Firmicus says that hardly any Roman except See also:Caesar, See also:Cicero and See also:Fronto had treated the subject, it is probable that he did not know the work of Manilius.

The latest event referred to in the poem (i. 898) is the great defeat of Varus by See also:

Arminius in the Teutoburgiensis Saltus (A.D. 9). The fifth See also:book was not written till the reign of Tiberius; the work appears to be incomplete, and was probably never published. See See also:editions by J. See also:Scaliger (1579); R. Bentley (1739); F. Jacob (1846); A. G. Pingre (1786); and T. See also:Becker (See also:Leipzig, 1907; and commentary 1909); of book i. by A. E.

See also:

Housman (1903). On the subject generally see M. Bechert, De emendandi Manilii Ratione (1878) and De M. M. Astronomicorum Poeta (1891); B. Freier, De M. Astronom. Aetate (1880); A. See also:Cramer, De Manilii Elocutione (very full; 1882); G. Lanson, De Manilio Poeta, with select See also:bibliog. (1887); P. Monceaux, See also:Les Africains (a study of the Latin literature of See also:Africa; 1894); R.

See also:

Ellis, Noctes Manilianae (1891); J. P. Postgate, See also:Silva Maniliana (1897), chiefly on textual questions; P. See also:Thomas, Lucubrationes Manilianae (1888), a See also:collation of the Gemblacensis (See also:Gembloux )MS.; F. Plessis, La Poesie latine (1909), pp. 477–483.

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