In the canon
Rome and Italy (Books VI-X)
Titus Livy
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 25 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 500
At the Caudine Forks the Samnites set two spears upright with a third across them, and made a trapped Roman army stoop one by one beneath the yoke while their captors watched. Livy does not soften that morning, or the century it belongs to: the hundred years after the Gauls burned Rome, when a bruised city on the Tiber fought its way to the mastery of Italy.
Go, lictor, bind him to the stake.
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