Sola Busca Cards: Postumio
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[edit] Livius Periochae 8
321 BC
"When consuls Titus Veturius and Spurius Postumius had maneuvered their army in a difficult position in the Caudine Forks, and there was no hope of escaping, they concluded a treaty with the Samnites and gave six hundred Roman knights as hostages, so that the army could be led away, although all were sent under the yoke."
The defeat at the Caudine Forks was one of the worst in early Roman history.
[edit] Fazio degli Uberti Dittamondo
Book 1, chapter XIV
Otto anni e trenta costui re disegno
e, dopo lui, seguí Silvio Postumo,
del qual ti dico ch'assai ne fu degno,
I say he was king for thirty eight years
And, after him, Silvius Postumus followed,
Of which I also say to you that was worthy,
The subject of the first verse is Ascanius (son of Eneas) king of Alba.
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