Tar|pe|ian

Tar|pe|ian
Tar|pe|ian «tahr PEE uhn», adjective.
of or having to do with a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which persons convicted of treason to the state were hurled.
╂[< Latin Tarpeianus < Tarpeia Tarpeia, a legendary Roman maiden who committed treason by aiding the Sabines]

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