Campani autem exercitum nostrum, cum consulibus apud Caudinas furcas sub iugum a Samnitibus missum, nec inermem tantum sed etiam nudum urbem suam intrantem, perinde ac victorem et spolia hostium prae se ferentem venerabiliter exceperunt, protinusque consulibus insignia honoris, militibus vestem arma equos commeatum benignissime praestando et inopiam et deformitatem Romanae cladis mutarunt.
When our army along with the Consuls was dismissed by the Samnites under the yoke at the Caudine Forks, the Campanians received it with respect as it entered their city not only unarmed but actually naked, like a victorious force carrying enemy spoils before it. At once they provided the Consuls with the emblems of their office and the soldiers with clothes, arms, horses, and supplies in the kindest fashion, and so transformed both the destitution and the ugliness of the Roman calamity.
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