mundus summus

Latin · adjective
variant summus mundus
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-11
Meanings
Literal translation
highest up
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1. arctic circle

1.a arctic circle

At qua fulgentis caelum consurgit ad Arctos, omnia quae summo despectant sidera mundo

‘Now where heaven reaches its culmination in the shining Bears, which from the summit of the sky look down on all the stars’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.275 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 26-27

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). mundus summus (Lemma #1996). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1996/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). mundus summus (Lemma #1996). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1996/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). mundus summus (Lemma #1996). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1996/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) mundus summus (Lemma #1996), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1996/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1996,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mundus summus ({Lemma} #1996)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1996/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1996/},
}