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- The Gemonian Stairs (Latin: Scalae Gemoniae, Italian: Scale Gemonie) were a flight of steps located in the ancient city of Rome. Nicknamed the Stairs of...
- Augustus. Located between it and the Tabularium (record house) were the Gemonian stairs leading to the Arx of the Capitoline. The church of San Giuseppe...
- hiding-place (according to Tacitus a door-keeper's lodge), driven to the fatal Gemonian stairs, and there struck down by Vespasian's supporters. "Yet I was once...
- arrested, summarily executed and his body unceremoniously cast down the Gemonian stairs. What caused his downfall is unclear: ancient historians disagree...
- executed criminals were thrown into the Tiber. People executed at the Gemonian stairs were thrown in the Tiber during the later part of the reign of the...
- jealousy/ like the double arch of a window/ Or some great colonnade." Gemonian stairs Mamertine Prison Platner (1929). A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient...
- the emperor. The trophy was sent to Rome where it was thrown down the Gemonian stairs. Tiberius Claudius Maximus' tomb cites two occasions where the legionary...
- exhibited in Rome on the steps leading up to the Capitol and thrown on the Gemonian stairs. The famous Dacian treasures were not found in the captured capital...
- the Vitellians. December 22 – Vitellius is captured and murdered by the Gemonian stairs. Vespasian becomes emperor. Judea: The Jewish Revolt – Vespasian...
- Vitellius, Roman emperor (22 December 69 AD), prior to his killing on the Gemonian stairs "Woe, I think I'm turning into a god... An emperor should die on...