Spartacus
In Our Time: History
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The Roman First Response to Sparticas
It looks like, from what we know, that to start with, although they send down three thousand guys, am, it's just a slave break at. The romans are quite often a bit hopeless at stage one in their military responses. What you see happening later in the later sources is that after a kind of mis prision about spartcus importance, he becomes a kind of second hannibal am and he might have destroyed rome. And whether if we were sitting in roman, 73 b c, we would have thought that, i don't know.
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