“Tarpeian”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Tarpeian

释义

Tarpeian, a.|tɑːˈpiːɪən|
[f. L. Tarpei-us, or ad. L. Tarpeiān-us adj., f. proper name Tarpeius or Tarpeia.]
Denoting a rock-face on the Capitoline Hill at Rome over which persons convicted of treason to the state were thrown headlong. Also Comb., as Tarpeian-fast adj. poet.
1607Shakes. Cor. iii. i. 213 Beare him toth' Rock Tarpeian, and from thence Into destruction cast him.Ibid. iii. iii. 88 Let them pronounce the steepe Tarpeian death.1671Milton P.R. iv. 49. 1746 Francis tr. Hor. Sat. i. vi. 51 From the Tarpeian rock's tremendous height, Or to the hangman Cadmus give their fate.1843Macaulay Horatius xvi, Now, from the rock Tarpeian, Could the wan burghers spy The line of blazing villages.1876G. M. Hopkins Wreck of Deutschland xxix, in Poems (1967) 61 The Simon Peter of a soul! to the blast Tarpeïan-fast, but a blown beacon of light.

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