Inspirational Quotes by Marcus Manilius (Roman Poet)

Marcus Mānīlius (c.48 BCE–20 CE) was the last of the Roman didactic poets. He is the author of the Astronomica—an unfinished astrological poem that spans the final years of Emperor Augustus and the initial reign of Emperor Tiberius.

Little of Mānīlius’s life is known. His Astronomica is a compendium of ancient astrological and astronomical conceptions, together with a treatise of the nature of the Milky Way. The Astronomica was the first Roman work on the subject of astrology and was a subject of translation for astrological commentators in the seventeenth century.

Astronomica is known particularly for Mānīlius’s engaging forewords to each book and in his mythological and moralizing forays. Continuing the style and philosophy of Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid, Mânîlius emphasizes the providential rule of the world and the operation of divine reason.

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