# Spurius Posthumius — Discourses on Livy character guide

> Spurius Posthumius in Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Posthumius

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

Roman consul who surrendered to the Samnites at the Caudine Forks.

## In the story

### [XL: Of the creation of the Decemvirate in Rome, and what therein is to be noted.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_on_livy_se/chapters/xl)

Sent to Athens along with two others to procure copies of Solon's laws as a basis for Roman law.

### [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_on_livy_se/chapters/xlii)

Consul who argued that the peace made under compulsion at Caudine Forks was not binding on Rome, offering himself as a prisoner to free the people from the promise.

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