Battle of Pedum (358 BC)

This article is about the 358 BC battle. For the 338 BC battle, see Battle of Pedum (338 BC).
Battle of Pedum
Part of Roman-Gaulish Wars
Date358 BC
Location
Pedum in Latium, Italy
Result Roman victory
Belligerents
Roman Republic Gauls
Commanders and leaders
Gaius Sulpicius Peticus
Marcus Valerius Poplicola		 Unknown
Strength
2 consular armies; about 40,000[1] Unknown

The Battle of Pedum was fought in 358 BC, near Pedum between the Roman Republic and a group of Gauls who had entered Latium. The Romans, led by dictator Gaius Sulpicius Peticus and his magister equitum, Marcus Valerius Poplicola, defeated the Gauls at their encampment near Pedum after a prolonged standoff.[2][3]

  1. ^ Livy, Ab urbe condita 7.12
  2. ^ Public Domain Bunbury, Edward (1857). "Pedum". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. 2. London: John Murray.
  3. ^ Forsythe, Gary (2005). A Critical History of Early Rome: From Prehistory to the First Punic War (1st ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-520-94029-1. OCLC 70728478.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)