Tarpeian Rock

Also known as: Rupe Tarpea
Description: Cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors were thrown; Lacordaire listens in silence at its base while Cicero speaks
Coordinates: 41.8933, 12.4828

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Cliff on the Capitoline Hill in Rome from which traitors were thrown; Lacordaire listens in silence at its base while Cicero speaks.

Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship

ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES. — Lacordaire listens in silence at the base of the Tarpeian Rock to Cicero
"I listen in silence at the base of the Tarpeian Rock to Cicero who speaks to me and moves me"