limes

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-11-04
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line astral concept, spatial concept

imaginary line across the sky

et modo quae fuerant surgentia limite recto sidera curvato ducentur in aethera tractu,

‘and the signs which had just now risen in a vertical arc will now be drawn into the air over an inclined track’

— Manilius, Astronomica 3.332 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 188-189

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). limes (Lemma #2354). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2354/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). limes (Lemma #2354). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2354/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). limes (Lemma #2354). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2354/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) limes (Lemma #2354), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2354/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2354,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {limes ({Lemma} #2354)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2354/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2354/},
}