The Romans Never Quit, They Just Keep Coming

The romans were set up perfectly by the samnite commander gaius paunius. He despatched some of his soldiers into roman territory masquerading as non combatant herdsmen. Any other state, when faced with such catastrophic defeats, would have quit and prayed for mercy from their enemies. But the romans never even gave it a thought. They just kept coming. The defeat at caudin forks did nothing less than prove that the romans were cut from a completely different cloth than their contemporaries.