place
the Caudine Forks
Caudine Forks
The narrow wooded defile (Furculae Caudinae) where the Samnites trapped the Roman army in 321 BC.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 9 §2 Caudine Forks
The mountain pass near Caudium, two defiles enclosing a plain, where the legions were caught and surrendered.
- The History of Rome, Book 22 §14 Caudine Forks
The mountain pass where a Roman army was sent under the yoke by the Samnites in 321 BC.
- The History of Rome, Book 35 §11 the Caudine disaster
Rome's humiliating defeat and surrender at the Caudine Forks (321 BC), proverbial for an army trapped in a pass.