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Tarpeian Rock

a name given to the Capitoline Hill from Tarpeia, the traitress. Later, the name was restricted to a cliff or steep declivity of the Capitoline over which criminals were hurled to their death. The exact location of the rock is now a matter of mere tradition.

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