. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . till the prevalent opinion, and hasbeen adopted by Becker. But Dureau de la Malle{Mi moire sur la Roche Tarpeienne, in the Mem. deVAcad., 1819) has pointed out two passages in Dio-nysius which are totally incompatible with this describing the execution of Cassius, that historiansays that he was led to the precipice which overhangsthe forum, and cast down from it in the view of allthe people (toDto to teAov tt)s 5i«7jj \a§ovcrr)s,ayayuiTis oi Tafxiai rbv £ir\ tov byopas Kpr)fxvbv, oMavroiv bpuivraiv, tfipv^avKara ttis
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . till the prevalent opinion, and hasbeen adopted by Becker. But Dureau de la Malle{Mi moire sur la Roche Tarpeienne, in the Mem. deVAcad., 1819) has pointed out two passages in Dio-nysius which are totally incompatible with this describing the execution of Cassius, that historiansays that he was led to the precipice which overhangsthe forum, and cast down from it in the view of allthe people (toDto to teAov tt)s 5i«7jj \a§ovcrr)s,ayayuiTis oi Tafxiai rbv £ir\ tov byopas Kpr)fxvbv, oMavroiv bpuivraiv, tfipv^avKara ttis irerpas, viii. 78, cf. vii. 35, seq.). Nowthis could not have taken place on the side of the Torde Specchi, which cannot be seen from the forum ;and it is therefore assumed that the true RupesTarpeia must have been on the E. side, above della Consolazione. The arguments adducedby Becker to controvert this assumption are not veryconvincing. He objects that the hill is much lo>sprecipitous here than on the other side. But this. SUPPOSED BOCK DoUring with regard to its earlier state. Livy,as we have seen, records the fall of a vast mass ofnek into the Vicus Jugarius. Such landslips musthave been frequent in later times, and it is ]where the rock was most precipitous that they wouldoccur. Thus, Flavius Blond us {Inst. Rim. ii. 58)mentions the fall in his own time of a piece as largeas a house. Another objection advanced by Iis that the criminal would have fallen into the VicusJugarius. This, however, is absurd; he would only have fallen at the back of the houses. Nothing canbe inferred from modern names, as that of a churchnow non-extant, designated as sub Tarpeia, as wehave already shown that the whole S. summit wasBeckers attempt to explain awaythe words airdvTcuv tiowvrwv is utterly futile. Onthe whole, it seems most probable that the rockwas on ie, not only from the express testimony of Dionysius, which it is difficult or im-possible to set aside, but
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