Caudium (city)

Caudium was an ancient city ​​in Samnium ( central Italy ).

Caudium was on the Via Appia between Capua and Benevento , near today's Montesarchio . The original inhabitants of the city were the Samnite Caudini . Later it was a Roman Municipium .

Caudium is best known for the nearby “Caudinic Passes” ( furculae Caudinae ). An army of the Roman Republic suffered there during the Second Samnite War in 321 BC. A severe defeat that forced Rome to accept a shameful peace (literally the “Caudinian yoke” under which the Roman legionaries were forced).

literature

• Christian Hülsen : Caudium . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, column 1804.

Coordinates: 41 ° 4 ′  N , 14 ° 38 ′  E