Manilius
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Manius Manilius · Spurius
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
Interlocutor who raises the question of Numa's supposed link to Pythagoras
When Scipio had said this, "Is it true," said Manilius, "Africanus, that it has been handed down to memory that this king Numa was a disciple of Pythagoras himself, or at least a Pythagorean?
" "Immortal gods," said Manilius, "how great and how inveterate is that error of men!
so that this our interpreter of the law, Manilius, now says that the rights concerning the bequests and inheritances of women are other than he used, as a young man, to declare them, before the Voconian law was passed;
Institutes of Roman Law
Roman jurist quoted (via Varro) defining nexum broadly as everything transacted per aes et libram.
Nexum Manilius scribit omne quod per libram et aes geritur, in quo sint mancipia.