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Marcus Manilius
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1st century Roman writer
OverviewAI-generated
Marcus Manilius was a person who lived from 100 to 50. He is identified as an author with a total of 37 works listed in the Open Library, while other sources cite varying counts of 5 and 24 works. His top works include *Astronomicon liber primus[-quintus]*, *Marci Manilii Astronomicon*, and *M. ManilI Astronomic[o]n libri qvinqve*. Other titles associated with him are *Astronomicon liber primvs [-quintvs]*, *Stace*, *Martial*, *Lucilius Junior*, *Rutilius*, *Gratius Faliscus*, and *Nemesianus et Calpurnius ...*.
Manilius is referenced by 384 other encyclopedia articles. Several of his quotes are preserved, including "Per varios usus artem experientia fecit, Exemplo monstrante viam." and "Semper enim ex aliis alias proseminat usus." Additional lines include "Certis legibus omnia parent." and "Quis credat tantas operum sine numine moles Ex minimis, caecoque creatum foedere mundum?"
Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Ancient Rome
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Notable work
- Astronomica
- Image
- Manilius.jpg
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- date of death
- 0050-00-00
- date of birth
- 0100-00-00
- birth name
- Marcus Manilius
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- writing language
- Latin
- Commons category
- Marcus Manilius
- floruit
- 0100-00-00
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P13311
- Saint-Bernard
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Works in European collections
24 objects attributed to Marcus Manilius, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
![Ivlii Firmici Materni Ivnioris Sicvli V.C. ad Mavortivm Lollianum Astronomic [o] n lib. VIII /](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fimagines.manuscriptorium.com%2Floris%2FNKCR__-NKCR__5_B_000006__4CRND2D-cs%2FIMG00000001%2Ffull%2F!400%2C400%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&type=IMAGE)
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Encyclopedic overview
Manilius. The sphere.; artwork by Wenceslaus Hollar
Marcus Manilius (fl. 1st century AD) was a Roman poet, astrologer, and author of a poem in five books called Astronomica.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marcus Manilius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.