Tarpeian Rock
a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.
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How to use Tarpeian Rock in a sentence
One, whose fate he wished particularly to signalize, was thrown down from the Tarpeian Rock.
History of Julius Caesar | Jacob AbbottWe use the title Tarpeian Rock as applied to the place of execution and not to the whole hill.
Rambles in Rome | S. Russell ForbesNo more success: mere sham-success, for a day and days; rising ever higher,—towards its Tarpeian Rock.
As you know, madam, the Tarpeian Rock is close to the Capitol.
Last of the Incas | Gustave AimardLudovico suggested our going to the Tarpeian Rock, which is part of this precipitous hill, if we were not too tired.
Italian Days and Ways | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
British Dictionary definitions for Tarpeian Rock
/ (tɑːˈpiːən) /
(in ancient Rome) a cliff on the Capitoline hill from which traitors were hurled
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