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Tarpeian
Tarpeian Tar*pe"ian, a. [L. Tarpeius, prop., pertaining to Tarpeia.] Pertaining to or designating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.

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- In Roman legend, Tarpeia (/tɑːrˈpiːə/; mid-8th century BCE), daughter of the Roman commander Spurius Tarpeius, was a Vestal Virgin who betra**** the city...
- The Tarpeian Rock (/tɑːrˈpiːən/; Latin: Rupes Tarpeia or Saxum Tarpeium; Italian: Rupe Tarpea) is a steep cliff on the south side of the Capitoline Hill...
- Tarpeia is an impact crater on the asteroid 4 Vesta. It is named after the Roman Vestal Virgin Tarpeia, who, according to legend, betra**** the city of...
- Tarpeia), a cliff on Capitoline Hill in Rome Tarpeia gens, an ancient Roman family Tarpeia (crater), a crater on 4 Vesta Oeneis tarpeia (O. tarpeia)...
- Charles Christian Nahl (1870) The Vestal Virgin Tarpeia Beaten by Tatius’ soldiers Il Sodoma (16th c.) Tarpeia's punishment, Pentelic marble fragment from the...
- The gens Tarpeia was a minor patrician family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens are known, and the Tarpeii vanish from history after the...
- Tatius. Tatius almost succeeded in capturing Rome, thanks to the treason of Tarpeia, daughter of Spurius Tarpeius, Roman governor of the citadel on the Capitoline...
- Pyramidella tarpeia is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. This species has...
- The lex Aternia Tarpeia was a Roman law, introduced by the consuls Aulus Aternius Varus and Spurius Tarpeius Mont**** Capitolinus in 454 BC, and p****ed...
- international hit in the summer of 1996 and 1997; the second album is titled Tarpeia, also released in 1997. They disbanded briefly from 1998 to 1999, and again...