Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . s still the prevalent opinion, and hasbeen adupted by Becker. But Dureau de la JIalle{Memoire svr 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 liistoriansays that he was led to the precijiice ichich overhangsthe forum, and cast down from it in the view of allthe people (toCto to t4\os ttjs Siktis \a€o6ffT]?,ayayovTes ol rafiiai Thv ixvOpa eVl tui/ vinpKiifxevovTf;s d7opas Kpy], andvTwv bpuVTwv, ippi\\iavKUTO. T
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . s still the prevalent opinion, and hasbeen adupted by Becker. But Dureau de la JIalle{Memoire svr 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 liistoriansays that he was led to the precijiice ichich overhangsthe forum, and cast down from it in the view of allthe people (toCto to t4\os ttjs Siktis \a€o6ffT]?,ayayovTes ol rafiiai Thv ixvOpa eVl tui/ vinpKiifxevovTf;s d7opas Kpy], andvTwv bpuVTwv, ippi\\iavKUTO. Tfjs TTtTpas, 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 lessprecipitous here than on the other side. But this. proves nothing with regard to its earlier state. Livy,as we have seen, records the fall of a vast mass ofrock into the Vicus Jugarius. Such landslips musthave been frequent in later times, and it is jjreciselywhere the rock was most precipitous that they wouldoccur. Thus, Flavins Blondiis (Imt. Horn. ii. 58)mentions the fall in his own time of a piece as largeas a house. Another objection advanced by Beckeris that tiie cri?iiinal would have fallen into the VirusJugarius. This, however, is absurd : he would only have fallen at the back of the houses. Notliinfj canbe inferred from modern names, as that of a churchnow non-extant, designated as .tub Tarpno, as wohave alrcaily shown that the wiiolc S. i-ummit wasMons Tar]ieius. Beckers attempt to rx]iiaiii ;»ythe words cmavrtov boiivTwv is utti-rly futile;. Onthe whole, it seems iiiost probable that the rockwas on the SIv side, not only fioni the expresstestimony of Dioiiysius, which it is d
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