phenomenonNoonCosmosThe midpoint of day when the sun is highest locally. Not day itself, and not zenith as a sky-point alone.Roman religionNoon appears in Roman religion.Pliny’s Natural History marks noon among the day’s hinges in clock and heat speech. A named noon point in that encyclopedia, not day as the whole span and not midnight.from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CEappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesNatural History · Pliny the ElderPliny, Naturalis Historia.