Battle of Mount Algidus

The Battle of Mount Algidus was fought in 458 BC, between the Roman Republic and the Aequi, near Mount Algidus in Latium. The Roman dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus turned an expected Roman defeat into an important victory.

Battle of Mount Algidus
Part of the Roman-Italic Wars

Surroundings of Rome in Antiquity
Date458 BC
Location
Mount Algidus, near Rome
41°43′23.002″N 12°46′9.998″E
Result Roman victory
Belligerents
Roman Republic Aequi
Commanders and leaders
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus,
Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus
Cloelius Gracchus
Location within Italy
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