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These things being said made a wonderful change in the people, and, commending him much for it, they desired that he himself would undertake the defense of Manilius; which he willingly consented to, and that principally for the sake of Pompey, who was absent.
His travels in Italy, again, abound with classical quotations happily introduced; but scarcely one of those quotations is in prose. He draws more illustrations from Ausonius and Manilius than from Cicero. Even his notions of the political and military affairs of the Romans seem to be derived from poets and poetasters.
"Horses are bought in almost the same manner as cattle or asses, because they change ownership by similar formalities, all of which are set forth in the book of Manilius. "Horses should be pastured whenever possible in meadows of grass, and in the stable and stall they are fed on hay. "When a mare has foaled she should be fed on barley and watered twice a day.
Manilius accomplished still less against the impregnable wall of the citadel. The siege thus lingered on. They had enough to do in protecting their ships against the Carthaginian incendiaries and their camp against nocturnal surprises, and in securing food for their men and horses by the construction of a harbour-fort and by forays in the neighbourhood.
For this reason the usual stipulation has had a few words cut out of it for use in respect of goats, and, as Manilius gives it in his treatise on the law of Sales, runs as follows: 'Do you guarantee that these goats are well today; that they are able to drink, and that I will get good title to them?
And this character is precisely what belongs to the man of whom we are speaking. * Manilius. Certainly, provided he attends to his practical business also. Scipio. Do you think that knowledge only fit for a steward? Manilius. Certainly not, inasmuch as the cultivation of land often fails for want of agricultural labor. Scipio.
The Siege The consuls accordingly had by no means an easy task to perform, when they now found themselves compelled to commence a regular siege. Manius Manilius, who commanded the land army, pitched his camp opposite the wall of the citadel, while Lucius Censorinus stationed himself with the fleet on the lake and there began operations on the tongue of land.
It is possible, I confess, though it rarely happens, that a verse of monosyllables may sound harmoniously; and some examples of it I have seen. My first line of the "AEneis" is not harsh "Arms, and the man I sing, who forced by Fate," &c. but a much better instance may be given from the last line of Manilius, made English by our learned and judicious Mr. Creech
Ovid draws largely from him in the Metamorphoses, and Manilius had evidently adopted him as a model. The writer of Etna echoes his language and sentiments, and Tacitus, in a later generation, speaks of critics who even preferred him to Virgil.
The technical details are carefully given, and would probably have had some value; but there is scarcely a trace of poetic enthusiasm, and only a moderate elevation of style. The last Augustan poet we shall notice is M. MANILIUS, whose dry subject has caused him to meet with very general neglect.
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