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	MANILIUS - LoveToKnow Article on MANILIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Even his name is uncertain, but it was probably Marcus Manilius; in the earlier MS~.
		The poem itself implies that the writer lived under Augustus or Tiberius, and that he was a citizen of and resident in Rome.
		Firmicus, who wrote in the time of Constantine, exjilbits 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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MANILIUS.htm (388 words)

	Marcus Manilius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manilius frequently imitates Lucretius, whom he resembles in earnestness and originality and in the power of enlivening the dry bones of his subject.
		Firmicus, who wrote in the time of 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.
		The latest event referred to in the poem is the great defeat of Varus by Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (AD The fifth book was not written until the reign of Tiberius; the work appears to be incomplete, and was probably never published, for it was never quoted by any subsequent writer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marcus_Manilius (555 words)

	A.E. Houseman's Commentary on Manilius, I
		Manilius was first made known to the Italy of the renascence by Poggio's discovery of the MS whence M and V are derived.
		The commentary is the one commentary on Manilius, without forerunner and without successor; today, after the passage of three hundred years, it is the only avenue to a study of the poem.
		Manilius' best friend in that generation, and the greatest critic, after Bentley and Scaliger, whose attention be ever enticed, was Gronotius, who in his four famous books of Observationes has filled many pages and chapters with admirable corrections of the Astronomica.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~borth/MANILII3.HTM (2800 words)

	The Houses: Temples of the Sky - by Deborah Houlding; Chapter 5 - Planetary Joys: The 5th/11th House Axis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Manilius was not unique among the early astrologers in attributing marriage to the 10th house but it is interesting to see how his understanding of that 'abode' ties in with the natural significations of the planet he associates it with.
		Some astrological historians suggest that Manilius' variance on the joy scheme should be explained as an error, but a deeper understanding of his text shows that the association between planet and 'house' was much stronger and influential in his interpretations than in later works.
		Manilius stated that he was introducing to the classical world 'strange lore untold by any before' and his many references to oriental gods and myths suggests that he was more directly in touch with the philosophies of the older civilisations than the later classical authors whose works became the sources for western traditional astrology.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /temples/5.html (2804 words)

	§11. Editions of Terence and Manilius. XIII. Scholars and Antiquaries. Vol. 9. From Steele and Addison to Pope and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Manilius was the last Latin poet of whom a revised text was published by Bentley.
		The astronomical poem of Manilius is difficult and the text very corrupt.
		But deeply-seated corruptions cannot be cured by trifling alterations; and more than one competent judge has pronounced that Manilius, rather than Horace or Phalaris, is the chief monument of Bentley’s genius.
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 920 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Not even the first section is complete ; the risings of several constellations with reference to the signs of the zodiac, which ought to have been included in the fifth book, are omitted, and a sixth would have been necessary to enumerate the settings of those constellations whose risings formed the subject of the fifth.
		Occasionally, especially in the introductions and digressions, we discern both power of language and elevation of thought, but for the most part the attempts to embellish the dull details of his art are violent and ungraceful, affording a most remarkable contrast to the majesty with which Lucretius rises on high without an effort.
		MANILIUS, the author of an epigram in two lines, quoted by Varro (L. p.
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	Katharina VOLK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The wish of the poet to reach the stars is based on the popular notion that fame equals a rising to the sky, and Manilius may be alluding in particular to two famous lines of Horace (Carm.
		What is remarkable, though, is that Manilius intends to build these steps himself&emdash;no doubt a fanciful adaptation of the archaic image of the poet as a craftsman.
		This play with the word's double meaning is typical for Manilius, who likes to blend signifier and signified, the realm of his poem and the realm of his subject matter.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/02mtg/abstracts/volk.html (368 words)

	Matrix Astrology Software : Learn Astrology - Astrology Articles -Manilius' System of Dodecatemories (DWADS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Manilius, a Latin astrologer born about the time of Jesus, was also aware of this type of division.
		Manilius begins by describing the dodecatemories in much the same way as the generally accepted Hindu method.
		Manilius diverges from the commonly accepted modern usage of dodecatemories, or dwads, at this point, adding an interesting twist.
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	GAIUS MANILIUS - LoveToKnow Article on GAIUS MANILIUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Both parties in the state were offended by the law, and Manilius endeavoured to secure the support of Pompey by proposing to confer upon him the command of the war against Mithradates with unlimited power (see POMPEY).
		The proposal was supported by Cicero in his speech, Pro lege Manilia, and carried almost unanimously.
		Manilius was later accused by the aristocratical party on someunknown charge and defended by Cicero.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MANILIUS_GAIUS.htm (111 words)

	Monsters and the Monstrous - Conference Programme Session 6
		However, the Stoic agenda Manilius sets himself - of revealing the universe as the ultimate pattern of logic — is continually confronted by the paradox that among the constellations that control this ‘logic' are beasts and monsters, entities that exist to challenge order and civilisation.
		I argue that Manilius' inability to reconcile myth as poetry with astrology as science is a conscious performance of the mutual disruption of monstrousness and rationality, and that just as the stars are a divine mechanism, the earth is the spawning-ground of messy, hyper-corporeal agents of confusion.
		Inconsistencies within the science of Manilius' poem undermine in themselves its emphasis on the symmetry and stability of the cosmological order, while discord is acknowledged as a stellar influence on earth, with such disturbing results as human violence and monstrous births.
	www.wickedness.net /Monsters/M2/s6.htm (698 words)

	roman history, roman civilization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Manilius, tribune in 66, was a Pompeian and his fellow tribune Memmius was a supporter and also a relation of Pompey's.
		At the end of December, 66, as soon as the tribunes had stepped down from office, Manilius was immediately sued for de reputundis, again, in Cicero's court.
		In 65, however, Manilius was charged de maiestate for disrupting the 66 trial.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/66.htm (479 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Manilius' Astronomica is the text that Housman edited over a period of many years and dedicated to Moses Jackson, a friend from school that Housman never got over.
		Housman liked to say that Manilius' great talent was "doing sums in verse"--meaning that Manilius seemed to take a virtuosic pride in the fact that he could describe complicated astrological diagrams in Latin verse meter, and this is true.
		None of this is precisely astrological material, but it is certainly an instance of cosmic (and more precisely stellar) imagery being used to give divine legitimacy to a political program by furthering the notion that heavenly forces were signaling their favor toward Julius Caesar and toward Octavian as his son and successor.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122543 (3195 words)

	The Houses: Temples of the Sky - by Deborah Houlding; Chapter 7 - Cadency & Decline: The 6th/12th House Axis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As Manilius said of the 5th house - it is not as yet in the position of power but is ready to aspire to it - meaning that it will aspire to the cardinal position of the 4th.
		Termed 'the portal of toil' by Manilius and 'Bad Spirit' by others, it was regarded as a hostile and miserable area, suggestive of all forms of imprisonment, slavery and infirmity.
		Specific mention is made of Manilius, because he represents a very ancient understanding of house meanings, and also Firmicus who lived at the end of the classical period and hence represents a more refined approach to their meanings.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /temples/7.html (1739 words)

	Planetary Gods: Twelve Gods and Seven Planets by Ken Gillman
		Manilius arranged the deities in the same order in his Astronomica, the oldest surviving complete astrological text, written during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 B.C.-37 A.D.), but he shifted the Sign associated with each deity one place, see Table 3.
		Manilius placed the Sign of Leo under the Mother of the Gods as well as Jupiter.
		This suggests it is the Manilius version that became accepted rather than the one detailed in the Rustic Calendars.
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	Katharina VOLK
		That the Latin poet does not treat the planets is surprising since, after all, the discipline of astrology consists primarily in determining and interpreting the exact position of the sun, moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn vis-ÃÝ-vis the backdrop of the fixed stars, especially the signs of the zodiac.
		By contrast, I propose that the poet deliberately marginalized the "wandering stars," whose seemingly erratic movements he felt posed a threat to the orderly Stoic universe celebrated in his poem.
		I suggest that this strategy is not peculiar to Manilius, but indicative of a general split, in the Hellenistic and especially Roman periods, between "hard" science on the one hand and scientific literature, especially of a poetic or philosophical kind, on the other.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/Volk.html (155 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.01.26
		Ovid has been taken to task for his failings in this particular, but Volk shows that Manilius is a much more flagrant offender when it comes to laying it on with a poetic trowel.
		Where Lucretius' imagery is always under control, Manilius' is apt to run away with him in his determination to get everything in on a 'have-one's-cake-and-eat-it-too principle' (p.
		Manilius, as Volk acutely demonstrates, not only opposes himself to Lucretius, Stoic vs. Epicurean, but repeatedly stakes an implicit claim to be going one better poetically (pp.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2003/2003-01-26.html (1562 words)

	MANILIUS, Marcus., Astronomicon interpretatione et notis ac figuris illustravit Michael Fayus.... Accesserunt Petri ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MANILIUS, Marcus., Astronomicon interpretatione et notis ac figuris illustravit Michael Fayus....
		Manilius: fine engraved allegorical frontispiece by Edelinck, numerous engraved illustrations in text, numerous engraved and woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout.
		This providential belief was perhaps the reason for the popularity of Manilius from the earliest years of printing: the first three editions were published in quick succession between 1472 and 1489.
	www.polybiblio.com /finch/10868.html (424 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.11.21
		If a representative group of classical scholars were polled as to what they associate with the term "simile," the most common response would presumably be "Homeric." We are all familiar with attacking heroes compared to charging animals and dying warriors likened to trees felled by woodcutters in the mountains.
		S.'s book (based on her 1998 Münster dissertation) is a model of clarity: the division into individual chapters is completely straightforward; each chapter ends with a useful summary; and the author's style of argument is extremely lucid (if somewhat dry).
		Likewise, it does not have to be the case that Vergil's and Manilius' more purely "poetic" use of similes vis-à-vis Lucretius' more "functional" one reflects a development from the "pre-classical" to the "classical" (pp.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-11-21.html (794 words)

	Appian's History of Rome: The Punic Wars
		Manilius advanced from the mainland by way of the isthmus, intending to fill up the ditch, surmount the low parapet overlooking it, and from that to scale the high wall.
		The consuls, fearing Hasdrubal, who had pitched his camp behind them on the other side of the lake, not far distant, fortified two camps, Censorinus on the lake under the walls of the enemy, and Manilius on the isthmus leading to the mainland.
		Manilius, after some feeble efforts, having with difficulty beaten down a little of the outworks, gave up in despair of taking the city from that side.
	www.livius.org /ap-ark/appian/appian_punic_20.html (1388 words)

	Astrology in Ancient Rome: Poetry, Prophecy and Power
		Manilius explicitly portrays the imperial rule of Augustus as cosmically ordained by the same fate that rules the motions of the stars in the heavens and governs every aspect of human life on earth.
		Manilius, then, states openly and unambiguously what Octavian's iconographic imagery had merely implied.
		We have a number of coins from this period showing on one side the face of Augustus and on the other side a winged victory standing on a globe representing the cosmos.
	fathom.lib.uchicago.edu /1/777777122543 (3158 words)

	Marcus Manilius -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to (Click link for more info and facts about Richard Bentley) Richard Bentley he was an Asiatic Greek; according to F. Jacob an African.
		Manilius frequently imitates (Roman philosopher and poet; in a long didactic poem he tried to provide a scientific explanation of the universe (96-55 BC)) Lucretius, whom he resembles in earnestness and originality and in the power of enlivening the dry bones of his subject.
		The edition of (Click link for more info and facts about A.E. Housman) A.E. Housman, published in five volumes from 1903 to 1930, is considered the authoritative edition, although some may find G.P. Gould's edition for the (Click link for more info and facts about Loeb Classical Library) Loeb Classical Library (Harvard, 1977) less intimidating.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/marcus_manilius.htm (480 words)

	Astrology Houses - © Dr Shepherd Simpson
		Manilius' Astrological Houses in the Astronomica: Writing less than half a century after that horoscope, the Roman poet-astrologer, Marcus Manilius, presents three versions of what we might now call house systems in his poem Astronomica [c 10 - 20 AD].
		As such, they are the earliest description of the nature of astrological houses - and the three systems by which the houses are applied to the Zodiac Wheel - that we possess.
		Valens' work - in his use of kentron [cardinal points], Temples and Lots is similar enough to the house concepts in Manilius' poem, to confirm the Astronomica as an accurate record of classical Greek and Roman thought on astrological houses from two millennia ago.
	www.geocities.com /astrologyhouses (486 words)

	A.E. Houseman's Commentary on Manilius, II
		A.E. Houseman's Commentary on Manilius, II Some ancient authors have descended to modern times in one ms only, or in a few MSS derived immediately or with little interval from one.
		Haase in Seneca, for ever assuming lacunas, and Baker in Cicero, for ever assuming glosses, are examples of editors maimed by their own whims: criticism requires a mind as various as its matter, nimble, flexible, empty of prepossessions and alert for every hint.
		From the illustration of his phraseology and his vocabulary, and from the elucidation of his language, I have purposely abstained: not that I despise this industry, but because life is short, and I have chosen other business which is more difficult and more important.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~borth/MANILII2.HTM (2962 words)

	Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism: Notes: VII. Astrology and Magic
		Manilius, IV, 16.--For instance CIL, VI, 13782, the epitaph of a Syrian freedman: "L. Caecilius L. l(ibertus) Syrus, natus mense Maio hora noctis VI, die Mercuri, vixit ann.
		The sacerdotal origin of astrology was well known to the ancients; see Manilius, I, 40 ff.
		Thus in the chapter on the fixed stars which passed down to Theophilus of Edessa and a Byzantine of the ninth century, from a pagan author who wrote at Rome in 379; cf.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/orrp/orrp20.htm (2229 words)

	Cicero by Plutarch
		When there were but two or three days remaining in his office, Manilius was brought before him, and charged with peculation.
		Manilius had the good opinion and favour of the common people, and was thought to be prosecuted only for Pompey's sake, whose particular friend he was.
		These things being said made a wonderful change in the people, and commending him much for it they desired that he himself would undertake the defence of Manilius; which he willingly consented to, and that principally for the sake of Pompey, who was absent.
	www.4literature.net /Plutarch/Cicero/3.html (597 words)

	Astrology: Taurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As Manilius says, “The might Bull is lame; his leg turns under; Taurus bends as wearied by the Plough”.
		Taurus is ruled by the planet Venus, and her gracious influence is fitting.
		Manilius describes the constellation as “dives puellis”--”rich in maidens”, for within the constellation’s half-body are the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, and the Hyades, the seven daughters of Atlas and Aethra and half-sisters of the Pleiades.
	www.societasviaromana.org /Collegium_Artium/taurus.php (892 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.05.08
		In 1989 Taylor studied the Humanist's notes in his working text to Manilius to strengthen the view that Carrion collated faithfully.
		Carrion's reliability is not established methodologically by the reference to Manilius.
		In addition, we know in the case of Manilius that Carrion in a later publication falsely claims variants of the codex as his own emendations (p.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-05-08.html (694 words)

	Hellenistic Astrology: Ptolemy, Valens, Hephaistion, Manilius, Paulus, Dorotheus, Firmicus, Greek astrology, Islamic ...
		Hellenistic astrology was the practice of prediction by various calculations and observations involving astral phenomenon.
		Includes the correspondences of regions the inhabited world to signs of the zodiac found in Teucer of Babylon, Paulus Alexandrinus, Manilius, Ptolemy, and Hephaistio of Thebes.
		Manilius was a 1st Century C.E. Latin writing astrologer who authored a long cosmological poem.
	www.astro-guide.com /hastro.htm (641 words)

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