event
Battle of the Caudine Forks
the Caudine Forks
also: Caudino proelio
The Roman disaster of 321 BC in the Second Samnite War, where the consuls Spurius Postumius and Titus Veturius surrendered and the army was sent under the yoke by Gaius Pontius.
Reading notes
- On Duties §3.109 the Caudine Forks
A mountain pass where the Samnites trapped a Roman army in 321 BC and sent it under the yoke. The generals who made the resulting peace were surrendered to the enemy because they had acted without the people's authority.