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Tarpeian definition

Tar·peian (-ən)

adjective

designating or of a cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors to the state were hurled to their death

Etymology: L Tarpeianus, after Tarpeia: see Tarpeia

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