Romans humiliated by the Samnites at the Claudine Forks, 321 BC. The Roman soldiers were forced to pass under a yoke and give up their weapons during the Second Samnite War. Les Romains passent sous le joug des Samnites. Copperplate engraving by David Weis after a design by Hubert-François Gravelot from Professor Joseph Rudolf Zappe’s Gemalde aus der romischen Geschichte, Pictures of Roman History, Joseph Schalbacher, Vienna, 1800. German edition of Abbe Claude Francois Xavier Millot’s Abrege de l’Histoire Romaine.

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