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• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Explanation: After the Battle of the Caudine Forks, a Roman force which had been trapped by Samnite forces (another ancient Italic peoples) had to surrender.

  The Samnite monarch mused over several options, including the possibility of simply freeing them as a gesture of goodwill in the hopes of negotiating a peace, or executing them all, to ensure they couldn’t oppose him again. Against the advice of his father, he opted instead for a middle path - he would make all the Roman troops pass under a yoke as a gesture of submission, and then force them to sign a peace treaty on Samnite terms. His father counseled that the Romans were too stubborn and, perhaps more importantly, too proud and prickly for that.

  The Samnite monarch didn’t listen, and had the Romans led under the yoke - those who refused were killed. Those remaining were allowed to leave the field, ashamed but alive.

  When the Roman troops returned to Rome, they were informed by a furious Senate that no one had authority to sign a peace treaty without the vote of the Popular Assemblies, and thus that the peace treaty was not valid under Roman law. To rectify the SHAME they brought upon the Republic, the soldiers were rounded up… and sent back out to fight the Samnites again.

  … Rome would eventually win the war.

  Samnite king should’ve listened to his dad.

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