mundus summus

Latin adjective

Last edited: 2024-11-11
Primary meaning arctic circle
Literal translation highest up
Variants
summus mundus
mundus summus
Edited by
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

Cite this entry
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: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1996,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {mundus summus ({Lemma} #1996)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1996/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1996/},
}