limes brumalis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-09-23
Primary meaning tropic of Capricorn
Literal translation winter-solstitial border
Variants
limes brumalis
brumalis limes
Edited by
tropic of Capricorn spatial concept

proximus hunc ultra brumalis nomine limes ultima designat fugientis limina solis

‘Next after this a boundary named the winter tropic marks the furthest station of the retreating Sun’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.582 f

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. (2024). limes brumalis (Lemma #2036). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2036/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). limes brumalis (Lemma #2036). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2036/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). limes brumalis (Lemma #2036). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2036/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) limes brumalis (Lemma #2036), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2036/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2036,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {limes brumalis ({Lemma} #2036)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2036/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2036/},
}