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Battle of Lautulae 315BC
From www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_lautulaeLivy records two versions of the battle. In both cases the Romans were besieging Sora, when their scouts reported that a large Samnite army was drawing near. The Roman commander, here records as the consul, marched to intercept the Samnite army, meeting up with them at Lautulae, close to the port of Tarracina. In the first account the battle lasted all day, and ended as a draw. In the second the Romans suffered a defeat in which Quintus Aulius, the master of horse, was killed. In this version of events a new master of horse, C. Fabius, was sent with reinforcements, and the combined army won a fresh victory, before resuming the siege of Sora.
Diodorus Siculus records the battle as a significant Roman defeat. After capturing Plistica the Samnites had been reinforced, and it was the presence of this large hostile army close to Latium that convinced the Romans to appoint Quintus Fabius as dictator, with Quintus Aulius as his master of horse. The Romans suffered heavy losses, and the army began to panic. Only Quintus Aulius refused to flee, and stood alone against the Samnites, dying a glorious death.
