cacumen summum

Latin · noun
variant summum cacumen
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-25
Meanings
Literal translation
highest extreme-point
Categories
cardinal point
astrological concept
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1. midheaven

1.a midheaven cardinal point, astrological concept

poetic

quae nisi perpetuis alterna sorte volantem cursibus excipiant nectantque in vincula, bina per latera atque imum templi summumque cacumen, dissociata fluat resoluto machina mundo.

‘did they not receive the circle, sign after sign in succession, flying in its perpetual revolution, and clamp it with fetters at the two sides and lowest and highest extremities of its compass, heaven would fly apart and its fabric disintegrate and perish.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.804 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 146-147

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cacumen summum (Lemma #2208). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2208/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cacumen summum (Lemma #2208). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2208/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). cacumen summum (Lemma #2208). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2208/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) cacumen summum (Lemma #2208), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2208/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2208,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {cacumen summum ({Lemma} #2208)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2208/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2208/},
}