Marcus Manilius was a Roman poet, astrologer, and author of a poem in five books called Astronomica. The author of Astronomica is neither quoted nor mentioned by any ancient writer. Even his name is uncertain, but it was probably Marcus Manilius; in the earlier books the author is anonymous, the later give Manilius, Manlius, Mallius. The poem itself implies that the writer lived under Augustus or Tiberius, and that he was a citizen of and resident in Rome. According to the early 1700s classicist, Richard Bentley he was an Asiatic Greek; according to the 19th-century classicist Fridericus Jacob an African. His work is one of great learning; he had studied his subject in the best writers, and generally represents the most advanced views of the ancients on astronomy.
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We are always beginning to live, but are never living.
—Marcus Manilius
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
—Marcus Manilius
Topics: Death, Dying
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