top (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Highest point1. use summus, in agreement with subs.2. fastīgium (esp. of a building)3. căcūmen, ĭnis, n. (extreme point of anything)4. culmen, ĭnis, n. (an elevated kind of word, more = Eng. summit)II. A toy so called • top (subs.): I. Highest point: 1. use summus, in agreement with subs.: e. g. the Exchange from t. to bottom, Janus summus ab imo, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 54: at the t. of his voice, summa voce, id. S. 1, 3, 7: et pass.: (L. G. § 343). 2. fastīgium (esp. of a building): cf. Virg. Aen. 2, 458, evado ad summi fastigia culminis: v. pinnacle. 3. căcūmen, ĭnis, n. (extreme point of anything): the t.s (summits) of mountains, montis cacumina, Lucr. Used of tree-t.s, Virg. E. 6, 28. 4. culmen, ĭnis, n. (an elevated kind of word, more = Eng. summit): the t.s of the Alps, c. Alpium, Caes. B. G. 3, 2: Troy falls from her lofty t., ruit alto a c. Troja, Virg. 2, 290. See also height, elevation, tip. Phr.: from t. to toe, ab imis unguibus usque ad verticem summum, Cic. R. Com. 7, 20: you are all wisdom from t. to bottom, tu quantus quantus es nihil nisi sapientia es, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40: to overthrow a state from t. to bottom, civitatem funditus evertere, Cic. Am. 7, 23: v. utterly. II. A toy so called: turbo, ĭnis, m.: Virg. Aen. 7, 378: Tib.: to spin a t., t. versare: v. to spin (III.). [Trochus, Gr. τροχός, is a hoop.]
TOP Copy link • TOP 1. s. Height, summit, Vid: For playing with, turbo (general term; also = rhombus: i. e., a magic reel or whirl; Vid: Voss., Verg., Ecl., 8, 68): trochus (a humming-top). To whip a top, turbinem (trochum) pellere; turbinem (trochum) flagello torquere (Persius, 3, 51, where for turbinem we have buxum; i. e., turbinem buxeum, a top of box-wood); turbinem verbere ciere (Tibullus, 1, 5, 3); trocho ludere (to play with a top, Hor., Od., 3, 27, 57): the top spins, turbo (trochus) movetur or versatur. 2. v. To excel, surpass, Vid: To top off the top (of a tree), decacuminare (arborem). 3. adj., summus.