Gemoniae

Reading notes

• The Annals §3.14 the Gemonian Steps

  The Scalae Gemoniae, the 'Stairs of Mourning' descending from the Capitol, where the bodies of the executed were exposed and dragged; defacing a man's images there was a popular death-sentence in effigy.

• The Annals §5(6).9 Gemonian Stairs

  The flight of steps on the Capitoline down to the Forum where the bodies of the executed—here Sejanus's children—were cast and exposed.

• The Histories §3.75 Gemoniae

  The Gemonian Steps on the Capitoline, where the bodies of the executed were exposed and dragged; Sabinus's headless corpse was hauled there.