| 单词 | tarpeian-fast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTarpeian-fast Denoting a rock-face on the Capitoline Hill at Rome over which persons convicted of treason to the state were thrown headlong. Also in combinations, as Tarpeian-fast adj. poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [adjective] > relating to specific hill Capitoline?a1439 Euganean1611 Tarpeiana1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 212 Beare him toth' Rock Tarpeian, and from thence Into destruction cast him. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. iii. 92 Let them pronounce the steepe Tarpeian death. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 49 The Capitol thou seest Above the rest lifting his stately head On the Tarpeian rock. View more context for this quotation 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires i. vi. 51 From the Tarpeian rock's tremendous height, Or to the hangman Cadmus give their fate. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Horatius xvi Now, from the rock Tarpeian, Could the wan burghers spy The line of blazing villages. 1876 G. 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. < as lemmas |
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