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LNS

Furculae Caudinae

furcula

expression

two lofty, defiles near Caudium, where the Roman army, in the year
was hemmed in by the Samnites
Casale di Forchia

Abbreviations

furcula, ae, f. dim. furca, II.. A forked prop to support a wall when undermined: suspenso furculis ab hostibus muro, Liv. 38, 7, 9.

— Furculae Caudinae, two lofty (fork-shaped) defiles near Caudium, where the Roman army, in the year A.U.C. 434, was hemmed in by the Samnites, now Casale di Forchia, Liv. 9, 2; 11; Flor. 1, 16; v. Caudium.