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TARPEIA

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 430 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TARPEIA , in Roman legend, daughter of the
commander
  of the Capitol during the war with the Sabines caused by the
rape
  of the Sabine
women
 . According to the common story, she offered to betray the citadel, if the Sabines would give her what they wore on their left arms, meaning their bracelets; instead of this, keeping to the
letter
  of their promise, they threw their shields upon her and crushed her to death. Simylus, a
Greek
  elegiac poet, makes Tarpeia betray the Capitol to a king of the Gauls. The story may be an attempt to
account
  for the Tarpeian
rock
  being chosen as the place of execution of traitors. According to S. Reinach, however, in Revue archeologique, xi. (1908), the story had its origin in a ritethe taboo of military spoils, which led to their being heaped up on consecrated ground that they might not be touched. Tarpeia herself is a local divinity, the manner of whose death was suggested by the tumulus or shields on the spot devoted to her cult, a crime being invented to
account
  for the supposed
punishment
 .


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