caudine forks

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   a battle in the Apennines in 321 BC in which the Samnites defeated the Romans

   Broaderpitched battle

   Apennines

Questions about caudine forks

What does caudine forks mean?

caudine forks means "a battle in the Apennines in 321 BC in which the Samnites defeated the Romans".

Is caudine forks a common word?

caudine forks is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.