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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 ( or rather astrology ).
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