Tarpeian Rock

American  

[tahr-pee-uhn] / tɑrˈpi ən /

noun

1. a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.

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Tarpeian Rock British  

/ tɑːˈpiːən /

noun

1. (in ancient Rome) a cliff on the Capitoline hill from which traitors were hurled

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Etymology

Origin of Tarpeian Rock

1600–10; < Latin ( mōns ) Tarpēi ( us ) Tarpeian (hill) + -an

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Example Sentences

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Tarpeian Rock

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

Hinc ad Tarpeiam, etc.: he leads him next to the Tarpeian Rock and to the Capitol, now of gold, once thick with wild bushes.

From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde Fowler

For him, thirty seconds had separated the Capitol from the Tarpeian Rock.

From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Louise Morgan Sill

This is the material of which the famous Tarpeian Rock and the lower part of most of the Seven Hills is composed.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

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