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Caudio
Montesarchio
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Caudio is Caudium, now Montesarchio, the chief town of the Caudine Samnites, near the narrow pass of the Caudine Forks. There, in the second war against the Samnites, a whole Roman army was trapped and forced to surrender and pass under a yoke of spears, a disgrace Rome never forgot. The historian Livy even argues that the peace which followed was only a personal pledge, not a treaty binding Rome. Under Augustus its land was assigned to veterans and placed under Beneventum.