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    0  Views: 1072 Answers: 2 Posted: 12 years ago
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      What is a rock tarpèinne? 


      I found The Tarpeian Rock (Latin, Rupes Tarpeia or Saxum Tarpeium) was a steep cliff of the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill, overlooking the Roman Forum in Ancient Rome. It was used during the Roman Republic as an execution site. Murderers, traitors,perjurors, and larcenous slaves, if convicted by the quaestores parricidii, were flung from the cliff to their deaths. Those who had a mental or significant physical disability also suffered the same fate as they were thought to have been cursed by the gods.[citation needed]The cliff was about 25 meters (80 ft) tall.


      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpeian_Rock

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        can you give me more answers to all my questions?

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