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Tarpeian  adj.  Pertaining to or designating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.





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"Tarpeian" Quotes from Famous Books



... 12. Hinc ad Tarpeiam, etc.: he leads him next to the Tarpeian Rock and to the Capitol, now of gold, once ...
— Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero • W. Warde Fowler
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... been often remarked that the Tarpeian rock is not far from the Capitol; of this Albuquerque was destined to make experience, and his last days were to be saddened by unmerited disgrace, the result of calumnies and lies, and of a skilfully woven plot, which, although it succeeded in temporarily clouding his reputation ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part I. The Exploration of the World • Jules Verne
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... the Forum, where Caesar was assassinated, and also the Tarpeian Rock. We saw the Dying Gladiator at the Capitol, and I think that even we appreciated that wonder of art; as much, perhaps, as we did that fearful story wrought in marble, in the Vatican—the Laocoon. And ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
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