# 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.

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