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contempt of them, the whole multitude then became angry, and gave evident signs of impatience and disgust; and
Sicinnius, the most violent of the tribunes, after a little private conference with his colleagues, proceeded solemnly to pronounce before them all, that Marcius was condemned to die by the tribunes of the people, and bid the Aediles take him to the Tarpeian rock, and without delay throw him headlong from the precipice.... Sicinnius then, after a little pause, turning to the patricians, demanded what their meaning was, thus forcibly to rescue Marcius out of the people's hands, as they were going to punish him; when it was replied by them, on the other side, and the question put, 'Rather, how came it into your minds, and what is it you design, thus to drag one of the worthiest men of Rome, without trial, to a barbarous and illegal execution?'
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But, when, instead of the submissive and deprecatory language expected from him, he began to use not only an offensive kind of freedom, seeming rather to accuse than apologize, but, as well by the tone of his voice as the air of his countenance, displayed a security that was not far from disdain and
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Tarpeia, one of the maidens of honourable estate, was the guardian of the
Capitol when the Romans were warring against the Sabines. She promised Tatius that she would give him entry to the Tarpeian Rock if she received as pay the necklaces that the Sabines wore for adornment. The Sabines understood
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And afterwards, when he had seized the power into his hands, and was putting many to death, a freedman, suspected of having concealed one of the proscribed, and for that reason sentenced to be thrown down the
Tarpeian rock, in a reproachful way recounted how they had lived long together under the
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The image of Nero watching the burning of Rome is related to the fires of passion. In Part 1, Chapter 14 Ambrosio accuses
Marcela of being a cruel Nero. In Part 2, Chapter 44, Altisidora accuses Don Quixote of being a new Nero who watches her burn with love from the Tarpeian Rock: "No mires de tu
184:", meaning, " heaped up shields ". The Sabines crushed her to death with their shields, and her body was buried in the rock that now bears her name. Regardless of whether or not Tarpeia was buried in the rock itself, it is significant that the rock was named for her deceit.
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same roof, himself for the upper rooms paying two thousand sesterces, and Sylla for the lower three thousand; so that the difference between their fortunes then was no more than one thousand sesterces, equivalent in Attic coin to two hundred and fifty drachmas.
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includes reference to the 'Rupe
Tarpeia' in "Notes for CXVII etc seq.": "Under the Rupe Tarpeia/ weep out your jealousies--/ To make a church/ or an altar to Zagreus/ Son of Semele/ Without jealousy/ like the double arch of a window/ Or some great
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To be hurled off the
Tarpeian Rock was, from a certain perspective, a fate worse than mere death because it carried with it the stigma of shame. The standard method of execution in ancient Rome was by
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447:, the rock, close by, was said to creak when the door to the treasury was opened. The symbolic meaning is obvious as Caesar was criticized for robbing the public treasury of Roman Republic.
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Sextus Marius, a rich man from Spain with copper and gold mines confiscated by
Tiberius and executed in 33 AD after being accused of incest.
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gate for Titus Tatius in return for "what the
Sabines bore on their arms" (golden bracelets and bejeweled rings). In Book 1 of Livy's
207:, the area between the two summits of the hill. The rock itself survived the remodelling and was used for executions well into
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the import and buried her alive. So
Aristeides the Milesian in his Italian History.
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In peril of precipitation/ From off the rock Tarpeian, never more/
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has a reference to the Tarpeian Rock. When Metellusus yielded to
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386:"we/ Even from this instant, banish him our city,/
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16:Steep cliff used for executions in ancient Rome
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145:According to early Roman histories, when the
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300:Marcus Manlius Capitolinus
286:Spurius Cassius Vecellinus
189:Lucius Tarquinius Superbus
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392:To enter our Rome gates."
222:There is a Latin phrase,
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555:Lemprière, John (1827).
271:Roman Republican coinage
243:Gaius Marcius Coriolanus
191:, the seventh legendary
153:attacked Rome after the
107:as a site of execution.
858:41.891500°N 12.482389°E
782:Graves, Robert (1934).
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672:Lives – Coriolanus
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475:I, Claudius
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97:Rupe Tarpea
876:Categories
823:Scribner's
688:Plutarch,
649:2008-02-16
516:References
491:Ezra Pound
487:The Cantos
361:Coriolanus
356:Coriolanus
348:In fiction
290:perduellio
825:, pg 123.
239:Tullianum
217:Vespasian
117:perjurors
109:Murderers
831:, Book 1
819:New York
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323:Syllaios
312:, 212 BC
310:Tarentum
304:sedition
277:), 89 BC
275:denarius
113:traitors
805:Sources
343:, 70 AD
331:, 23 AD
318:, 80 BC
267:Tarpeia
263:torture
237:in the
199:on the
162:Tarpeia
141:History
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129:, were
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121:slaves
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73:Latin
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