circulus solstitialis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-09-23
Primary meaning tropic of Cancer
Literal translation summer-solstitial circle
Variants
circulus solstitialis
solstitialis circulus
Edited by
tropic of Cancer spatial concept

Caelum autem dividitur in circulos quinque, qui per mundi cardines eunt: est septemtrionalis, est solstitialis, est aequinoctialis, est brumalis, est contrarius septemtrionali.

‘The sky is divided into five circles which pass through the cardinal points of the universe. In these five circles are the northern circle, the summer solstitial circle, the equinoctial circle, the wintry circle, and the one that is opposite to the northern.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 5.17.2

Genre: philosophy
Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume II: Books 4-7. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 457. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. 110-111

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). circulus solstitialis (Lemma #1847). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1847/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). circulus solstitialis (Lemma #1847). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1847/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). circulus solstitialis (Lemma #1847). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1847/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) circulus solstitialis (Lemma #1847), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1847/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1847,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {circulus solstitialis ({Lemma} #1847)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1847/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1847/},
}