orbis aquilonis

Latin · noun
variant aquilonis orbis
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-08-30
Meanings
Literal translation
circle of the north wind
Categories
spatial
Related Lemmata 3 ›

1. arctic circle

1.a arctic circle spatial

et quinque in partes aquilonis distat ab orbe.

‘and [the tropic of Cancer] is five degrees distant from the northern circle’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.574

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 50-51

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). orbis aquilonis (Lemma #2034). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2034/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). orbis aquilonis (Lemma #2034). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2034/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). orbis aquilonis (Lemma #2034). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2034/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) orbis aquilonis (Lemma #2034), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2034/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2034,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {orbis aquilonis ({Lemma} #2034)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2034/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2034/},
}