no longer ill omen
The Tiber Island Italian Isola Tiberina Latin Insula Tiberina is a boat shaped island in the southern bend of the Tiber river in Rome Approximately 270 m in length and 67 m at its widest the island is well known for being the site of an ancient temple to Aesculapius the Greek god of medicine and healing Legend has it that after the fall of the hated tyrant Tarquinius Superbus 510 BC the angry Romans threw his body into the Tiber It settled onto the bottom where dirt and silt accumulated around it Owing to its dark origins the Tiber Island was in Roman times considered a place of ill omen Until the temple was built nobody went onto the island and only the worst criminals were condemned to pass the remainder of their lives on it
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