Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Caudium

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Caudium

A town in Samnium on the road from Capua to Beneventum. In the neighbourhood were the celebrated Furculae Caudinae, or Caudine Forks, narrow passes in the mountains, where a Roman army surrendered to the Samnites, and was sent under the yoke, B.C. 321. It is now called the valley of Arpaia.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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