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.