culmen mundi

Latin · noun
variant mundi culmen
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-25
Meanings
Literal translation
culmination of the world
Categories
cardinal point
Related Lemmata 6 ›

1. upper midheaven

1.a upper midheaven cardinal point

quod summo premitur devexum culmine mundi donec ad occasus veniat, puerilibus annis succedit teneramque regit sub sede iuventam.

‘The slope which sinks down from the summit of the sky till it reaches the Occident succeeds to the years of childhood and includes in its province control of tender youth.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.846 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 148-149

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). culmen mundi (Lemma #2212). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2212/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). culmen mundi (Lemma #2212). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2212/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). culmen mundi (Lemma #2212). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2212/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) culmen mundi (Lemma #2212), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2212/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2212,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {culmen mundi ({Lemma} #2212)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2212/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2212/},
}