Tarpeia opened the gates of Rome's citadel to Titus Tatius and the Sabines, having bargained for what they wore on their arms. The Sabines crushed her beneath their shields, rewarding treachery with death.
Tarpeia, daughter of the Capitoline's garrison commander, opened the citadel gates to the Sabine king Titus Tatius during his war with Romulus. The Sabines crushed her beneath their shields for her treachery, and the cliff on the Capitoline Hill from which traitors were thereafter hurled bore her name — the Tarpeian Rock.
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