Tarpeia

Tarpeia, (13) æ, f. , jeune fille qui livra la citadelle de Rome (le Capitole) aux Sabins : Liv. 1, 11, 6 ; Val. Max. 9, 6, 1 || [dʼoù] a) Tarpeius mons, le mont Tarpéien [pour désigner le Capitole] : Varro L. 5, 41 ; Liv. 1, 55, 1 ; cf. Prop. 4, 1, 7 ; Mart. 9, 41, 1 ; b) [en part.] la roche Tarpéienne, point de la montagne duquel on précipitait les criminels : saxum Tarpeium Liv. 6, 20, 12 ; Tarpeia rupes Tac. H. 3, 71 ; ou abs^t Tarpeium Sen. Ira 1, 16, 5 ; Plin. 7, 143 ; c) épithète de Jupiter, c. Capitolinus : Prop. 4, 1, 7 ; Juv. 13, 78.

Tarpeia

the daughter of Sp. Tarpeius, the governor of the Roman citadel on the Saturnian hill, afterwards called the Capitoline, was tempted by the gold on the Sabine bracelets and collars to open a gate of the fortress to T. Tatius and his Sabines. As they entered, they threw upon her their shields, and thus crushed her to death. She was buried on the hill, and her memory was preserved by the name of the Tarpeian rock, which was given to a part of the Capitoline (Liv. 1.11 ; comp. Dionys. A. R. 2.38, 40). Niebuhr relates that a legend still exists at Rome which relates that the fair Tarpeia ever sits in the heart of the hill, covered with gold and jewels, and bound by a spell (Hist. of Rome, vol. i. p. 230). Varro (L. L. 5.41, ed. Müller) describes her as a Vestal Virgin ; but Plutarch relates (Num. 10) that Tarpeia was the name of one of the four Vestals, who were first appointed by Numa.

Tarpeia Gens

occurs only in the kingly and the early republican period. We read of a Sp. Tarpeius, who was the governor of the Roman citadel under Romulus, and whose daughter betrayed it to the Sabines [Tarpeia], and of a Sp. Tarpeius Montanus Capitolinus, who was consul in B. C. 454 with A. Aternius Varus Fontinalis. [Capitolinus.

Tarpēia

Daughter of Sp. Tarpeius, the governor of the Roman citadel on the Saturnian Hill, afterwards called the Capitoline. She was tempted by the gold on the Sabine bracelets and collars to open a gate of the fortress to T. Tatius and his Sabines. As they entered, they threw upon her their shields, and thus crushed her to death. She was buried on the hill, and her memory was preserved by the name of the Tarpeian Rock, which was given to a part of the Capitoline (Livy, i. 11). A legend still exists at Rome to the effect that Tarpeia still sits in the heart of the hill covered with gold and jewels, and bound by a spell.