TARPEIAN ROCK


Meaning of TARPEIAN ROCK in English

/tahr pee"euhn/

a rock on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, from which criminals and traitors were hurled.

[ 1600-10; mons ) Tarpei ( us ) Tarpeian (hill) + -AN ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .