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Definition of Tarpeian

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.

Meaning of Tarpeian from wikipedia

- Romans allegedly disposed of handicapped children at the Tarpeian Rock. To be hurled off the Tarpeian Rock was, from a certain perspective, a fate worse than...
- escarpment. This area is named the "Tarpeian Precinct", after the resemblance of the escarpment to the Tarpeian Rock. This relatively small elevated...
- bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence into destruction cast him;" and further on "He shall be thrown from the Tarpeian Rock with rigorous hands...
- was buried on or thrown from a rock known ever since by her name, the Tarpeian Rock. The Romans attacked the Sabines who now held the citadel, in what...
- The Senate condemned him to death in 385 BC, and he was thrown from the Tarpeian Rock. Some scholars suggest that Livy's portrait of Manlius is modeled...
- southern cliff of Rome's Capitoline Hill, thereafter called after her the Tarpeian Rock (Rupes Tarpeia). The legend tells that while Rome was besieged by...
- Bergamo, Lombardy Golfo di Orosei, Cala Luna, Monte Tiscali, Sardinia Tarpeian Rock The thrown stones, Lazio Vidzeme Pusena Kalns, Bartava Stone town...
- towns of Signia and Circeii. At Rome, Tarquin levelled the top of the Tarpeian Rock, overlooking the Forum, and removed a number of ancient Sabine shrines...
- Superbus removed and destro**** all the Sabine shrines and altars from the Tarpeian Rock, enraging the people of Rome. The people came to object to his rule...
- for s****ing kingly power; he was sentenced to death and thrown from the Tarpeian Rock. Between 376 BC and 367 BC, the tribunes of the plebs Gaius Licinius...