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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TARPEIAN

Tar *pe "ian, a. [L. Tarpeius, prop. , pertaining to Tarpeia. ]

 

Defn: Pertaining to or designating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

Tarpeian Rock

Tarpeian Rock |tɑːˈpiːən | a cliff in ancient Rome, at the south-western corner of the Capitoline Hill, over which murderers and traitors were hurled .

 

Oxford Dictionary

Tarpeian Rock

Tarpeian Rock |tɑːˈpiːən | a cliff in ancient Rome, at the south-western corner of the Capitoline Hill, over which murderers and traitors were hurled .