culmen

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

culmen inis, n

for columen, the top, summit, roof, gable : mersae culmina villae, O.: tuguri, V.: aedis, L.: culmina hominum, deorum, i. e. of houses and temples , V.: Alpium, Cs.: summum hominis, the crown of the head , L.: inane fabae, the leafless stalk , O.—Fig., the summit, height, point of culmination : fortunae, L.: ruit a culmine Troia, V.

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