Caudine Forks, a narrow mountain gorge in Samnium, in which, during the second Samnite war, a Roman army was entrapped and caught by the Samnites, who obliged them to pass under the yoke in token of subjugation, 321 B.C.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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