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,