Tarpeian Rock
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Tarpeian Rock
1600–10; < Latin ( mōns ) Tarpēi ( us ) Tarpeian (hill) + -an
Example Sentences
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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
The Tarpeian Rock, from which the condemned used to be thrown by the ancient Romans, is close by this edifice, if the Rupe Tarpeia still pointed out is the veritable one.
From The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany by Heffner, George H.
This was near the Tarpeian Rock, which afterward took her name.
From History of Julius Caesar by Abbott, Jacob
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 Reeve, Henry
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