Tarpeia (English spelling)

Japanese: タルペイア(英語表記)Tarpeia
Tarpeia (English spelling)
A woman who appears in the legend of the founding of Rome. When the newly founded Rome by Romulus (→Romulus and Remus) was attacked by the Sabines led by King Titus Tatius, she was the daughter of the commander of the advance guard fort on the Capitoline Hill. She fell in love with the enemy king or was promised gifts and lured the enemy troops into the fort, but after they captured the fort, the Sabines piled shields on top of her and crushed her to death as punishment for her treason.

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Japanese:
ローマの建国伝説に登場する女性。ロムルス (→ロムルスとレムス ) によって建設されたばかりのローマが,チツス・タチウス王に率いられたサビニ人の軍勢の攻撃を受けたとき,カピトリウム丘上の前衛の砦の指揮官の娘だった彼女は,敵の王に恋をし,または贈り物を約束されて,敵軍を砦に引入れたが,サビニ人たちは砦を占領したあと,売国の罪を罰するため,彼女の上に楯を積上げて圧死させたという。

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