For each false statement, click on the corresponding letter on the digital display.
A new number will be revealed that will open the safe if you answer correctly.
A: The name Capitoline comes from a human skull found there by workmen.
B: The official name of the hill was Arx et Capitolium after its two summits.
C: Tradition says that the northern elevation belonged to the Sabines.
D: The Asylum was located in a depression between the two elevations.
E: The hill was surrounded by steep cliffs on all sides.
F: The Capitoline was the smallest of the seven hills of Rome.
G: The cliffs at the southwest corner of the hill formed the Tarpeian rock.
H: At the northeast corner was a grassy space where augurs took the omens.
I: The temple of Juno Moneta was built in 344 BC by Titus Tatius.
J: By senate decree, no patrician could live on the Capitoline after 384 BC.
K: A muti-storied records office was built on the southeastern slope of the hill.
L: The principal approach to the hill from the forum was called the Via Sacra.
M: Caesar's assassins later locked themselves in the temple of Juno Moneta.
N: Juno's geese thwarted the Gauls' attempt to take the Capitoline in 390 BC.
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