TARPEIA  , in See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, daughter of the See also:

• COMMANDER

commander of the Capitol during the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war with the Sabines caused by the See also:

• RAPE
• RAPE (from Lat. rapere, to seize)
• RAPE (Lat. rapum or rapa, turnip)

rape of the See also:

• SABINE, SIR EDWARD (1788-1883)

Sabine See also:

• WOMEN

women . According to the See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story, she offered to betray the citadel, if the Sabines would give her what they wore on their See also:

• LEFT

left arms, meaning their bracelets; instead of this, keeping to the See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter of their promise, they threw their See also:

• SHIELDS, JAMES (181b-1879)

shields upon her and crushed her to See also:

• DEATH

death . Simylus, a See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek elegiac poet, makes Tarpeia betray the Capitol to a See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of the Gauls . The story may be an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account for the Tarpeian See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock being chosen as the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of See also:

• EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution of traitors . According to S . See also:

• REINACH, JOSEPH (1856- )

Reinach, however, in Revue archeologique, xi . (1908), the story had its origin in a rite—the See also:

• TABOO (also written tapu and tabu)

taboo of military spoils, which led to their being heaped up on consecrated ground that they might not be touched . Tarpeia herself is a See also:

• LOCAL

local divinity, the manner of whose death was suggested by the See also:

• TUMULUS

tumulus or shields on the spot devoted to her cult, a See also:

• CRIME (Lat. crimen, accusation)

crime being invented to account for the supposed See also:

• PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment .