Caudine Forks

American  

[kaw-dahyn] / ˈkɔ daɪn /

plural noun

1. two mountain passes in S Italy, in the Apennines near Benevento.

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Caudine Forks British  

/ ˈkɔːdaɪn /

plural noun

1. a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 _bc )

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Caudine Forks

The poet had passed under the Caudine Forks; he sang for an army visiting the tomb of its old renown, with arms reversed; and sang not of victory, but of death.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang

Take care! he will make of the first Rue Grenetat which comes to hand Caudine Forks.

From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood

Of this war we have but one event to tell, that in which Rome suffered the greatest humiliation it had met with in its entire career, the famous affair of the Caudine Forks.

From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

The Romans never saw but one Caudine Forks in their whole history.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

Seldom, since that of the Caudine Forks, did any Army, by ill-luck and ill-guidance, get into such a pinfold,—death or flat surrender seemingly their one alternative.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle