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Tar·peia (tär pē′ə)

noun

Rom. Myth. a girl who treacherously opens the Capitoline citadel to the invading Sabines, who then crush her to death with their shields

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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