Gemoniae

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.

Gemōniae, ārum, f. (sc. scalae), selten vollst. Gemōniae scālae, eine Art Treppe (viell. natürliche Felsenabsätze) am nordwestlichen Abhange des Kapitolin, wohin die Leichname der im Karzer Mamertinus Hingerichteten an einem Haken geschleift (s. bes. Val. Max. 6, 9, 13. Iuven. 10, 65) u. dann in den Tiber geworfen wurden, bl. Gem., Suet. Tib. 61, 4. Tac. ann. 3, 14: G. scalae, Val. Max. 6, 3, 3 u. 6, 9, 13. – von Plin. 8, 145 gradus gemitorii gen. (also v. gemo abgeleitet).

Gĕmōnĭæ, (13) ārum, f. (s.-ent. scalæ ), les Gémonies [degrés sur la pente du mont Capitolin, où lʼon traînait et exposait le corps des suppliciés] : Suet. Tib. 61 ; Gemoniæ scalæ Val. Max. 6, 3, 3, même sens.

gemoniae, arum. f.
沉下犯人之井。

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Gemoniae

(sc. scalae) or Gemonii (sc. gradus). A flight of steps cut out of the Aventine, down which the bodies of criminals strangled in the prison were dragged, and afterwards thrown into the Tiber (Val. Max. vi. 3, 3). See Carcer, p. 278.