Cancela Cilleruelo, Álvaro2025-06-052025-06-052022-09Cancela Cilleruelo, Álvaro. «The sphere of Saturn (Cicero, “De re publica”, 6.17)». Hermes , vol. 150, n.º 3, septiembre de 2022, pp. 369-375, https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2022-0024.0018-077710.25162/hermes-2022-0024https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120998This paper appears as a part of the Research Project “El género consolatorio en época tardoantigua: estudio y edición crítica del ‘De consolatione in aduersis’ (y otros textos tardíos y altomedievales)”, “Programa Logos – Fundación BBVA de Ayudas a la Investigación en el Área de Estudios Clásicos”, Convocatoria 2019.ABSTRACT: This paper argues that at Cicero, "De re publica" 6.17 the manuscript text “unum globum” should be kept instead of the conjecture “summum globum”. This conjecture is unanimously attributed to Fr. Boll (1910), but it was proposed already in 1790 by G.W. Maier. The use of “unus” in this context, in which the set of harmonic spheres of our cosmos is described, can be explained as an alternative to “primus” when referring to the first element of a sequence; further instances in Cicero’s works support this interpretation.engjournal article2365-3116https://doi.org/10.25162/hermes-2022-0024https://biblioscout.net/article/10.25162/hermes-2022-0024https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/Hermes-print-online/JE-HER-3https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/https://www.steiner-verlag.de/en/journalsopen access821.124Cicerón, Marco Tulio7der.08801.73De re publicaDe re publicaNumeralsTextual criticismAncient astronomyFilología latinaCrítica textual5505.10 Filología6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias