place
the Tarpeian rock
Tarpeian rock
also: saxum Tarpeium
The cliff of the Capitoline from which traitors were hurled to death; from it the tribunes cast down Marcus Manlius Capitolinus, so that one spot was both monument of his glory and place of his end.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 6 §17 the Tarpeian rock
The cliff of the Capitoline from which traitors were hurled to death; from it the tribunes cast down Marcus Manlius Capitolinus, so that one spot was both monument of his glory and place of his end.
- The History of Rome, Book 7 §10 the Tarpeian rock
The Capitoline cliff; Manlius boasts of the family that once hurled the Gauls down from it.
- The History of Rome, Book 24 §20 cast down from the rock
The Tarpeian cliff of the Capitol at Rome from which traitors and deserters were hurled to death.