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Gemoniae

absol

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Where it lives

Tiberius 4 · 4.4/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Historiae 2 · 0.39/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Gĕmōnĭae — Lewis & Short

Gĕmōnĭaescalae, or (more freq.)

I 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.

In the wild

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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