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Brewer's: Barathron
A deep ditch behind the Acropolis of Athens into which malefactors were thrown: somewhat in the same way as criminals at Rome were cast from the “Tarpeian Rock.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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