The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tarpeian \Tar*pe"ian\, a. [L. Tarpeius, prop., pertaining to Tarpeia.] Pertaining to or designating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.
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Usage examples of "tarpeian".
Gaius Antonius Hybrida, or we will take hold of every last man who objects and throw him from the Tarpeian Rock!
Pompey too had spoken angrily of proscriptions, of thousands being thrown off the Tarpeian Rock?
The corrupt or malicious witness was thrown headlong from the Tarpeian rock, to expiate his falsehood, which was rendered still more fatal by the severity of the penal laws, and the deficiency of written evidence.
In Rome, traitors were hurled from the Tarpeian rock, or slain in other, slower ways.
This Tarpeian rock was then a savage and solitary thicket: in the time of the poet, it was crowned with the golden roofs of a temple.
The Capitoline Hill, with the statues, and up there is the Tarpeian Rock where they threw traitors off—.
The deed executed by those of the Tarpeian Rock, Saturn in Leo February 13.
On the day he brought his army across the Marne, he was marked for the Tarpeian Rock.