Tarpeian Rock
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Tarpeian Rock
1600–10; < Latin ( mōns ) Tarpēi ( us ) Tarpeian (hill) + -an
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Roman trumpet with the rattle of the sistrum, chased the Liburnian prow with a poled barge, spread her foul mosquito nets over the Tarpeian Rock, and gave judgements among Marius’ weapons and statues.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Someone looking for bad omens might have found one in the name of the hill where it’s built, Roca Tarpeya; the Tarpeian Rock was an execution ground in ancient Rome.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 15, 2017
"O, I would not go to see the Tarpeian Rock," said Mrs. Beekman.
From Rollo in Rome by Jacob Abbott
I then went to look at the Tarpeian Rock, but the accumulation of earth has diminished its height—there is the Rock, but in a very obscure hole.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Henry Reeve
The Tarpeian Rock was a cliff on one side of the Capitoline Hill in Rome.
From Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School by O. J. Stevenson
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