# Claudius Pontius — Discourses on Livy character guide

> Claudius Pontius in Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Pontius

**First appearance:** 0004-i

## Who they are

Samnite general who defeated the Romans at the Caudine Forks.

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