Manius Manilius
historical figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Manilius
in the texts
Lucullus
Roman consul who served alongside Lucius Censorinus, mentioned to date Clitomachus's correspondence.
hear in what way the same things are said by Clitomachus in that book which he wrote to Gaius Lucilius the poet, when he had written on the same matters to Lucius Censorinus, the one who was consul with Manius Manilius.
On Moral Ends
Roman jurist involved in a legal debate about slave offspring as produce.
Shall the question whether the offspring of a slave-girl is to be reckoned among the produce be debated among the leading men of the state — Publius Scaevola and Manius Manilius, from whom Marcus Brutus dissents (a keen kind of inquiry, and not without use for the affairs of citizens, and I both read such writings, and the rest of that sort, gladly, and shall read them) — and shall these questions …
On the Commonwealth
A jurist known for prudence, part of Scipio's circle.
"Nay rather, let us hear you—unless perchance Manilius thinks that some injunction should be drawn up between the two suns, so that they may hold the sky on the terms by which each has held it.
and as they were about to do so, there came a man of prudence, dear and welcome to them all, Manius Manilius, who, being greeted most affectionately by Scipio and the rest, sat down next to Laelius.
Stoic Paradoxes
Roman jurist within the memory of the fathers' generation, owner of a modest house and farm, cited to test the standard of wealth.
Was Manius Manilius, within the memory of our fathers — not to be forever talking of the Curii and the Luscini — poor, after all?