SUMMIT Copy link • SUMMITPROP., Top of a mountain, etc., cacumen: culmen (cacumen = that which runs up to a point; hence of the summit of a pyramid, of a tree, etc.; culmen = “the highest part;” both also of the top of a mountain): ☞ fastigium (PROP., the gable of a roof represents the summit, as that which is most striking or conspicuous, but never in prose for the summit of a mountain): vertex (crown of the head; hence, top, summit; e.g., of a mountain): also frequently by circumlocution with summus; e.g., the summit of a mountain, summum jugum montis; mons summus; (with historians) summum montis or collis. Figuratively, Height, fastigium; or, mostly, by circumlocution with summus, supremus; e.g., the summit of glory, gloria summa. To raise one’s self to the highest summit of human greatness or power, in summum fastigium emergere et attolli: to stand at the summit, stare in fastigio. Vid: also, HEIGHT.