The gens Tarpeia was a plebeian family of ancient Rome. The family was active until the period of the early Roman Republic. Only one member of the family, Spurius Tarpeius Montanus Capitolinus, is mentioned independent of the legendary accounts of Livy.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.