Scaife ATLAS

Gĕmōnĭae scalae, or (more freq.) absol., Gemoniae, ārum, f. gemo, cf. "The Bridge of Sighs", steps on the Aventine Hill leading to the Tiber, to which the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into the Tiber: nemo punitorum non et in Gemonias abjectus uncoque tractus, Suet. Tib. 61: Gemoniae, id. Vit. 17; id. Tib. 53; 75; Juv. 10, 65; Val. Max. 6, 9, 13; Tac. A. 3, 14; 5, 9; 6, 25; id. H. 3, 74; 85; in full: Gemoniae scalae, Val. Max. 6, 3, 3.—Called also: gradus Gemi-torii, Plin. 8, 40, 61, § 145.

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Gĕmōnĭae

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gĕmōnĭae

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gemoniae

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19421

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Gemoniae

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