Spartacus
In Our Time: History
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Sparticus and the Roman Empire
Greek source describes crassus as a avaricious and cruel man. He ennobles sparticus, because he says that at the point when there was goin to be the final show down, he then had his horse killed so that literally, he could be on the same footing as his fellow soldiers. But unfortunately, he could not reach him in time. As an imperator, it was said. Wasn't that im florus? Yesn that word means general, but it also means emperor. So did this intervention by crassus indicate that they now saw sparticus a very serious threat to the state? It must have been. They had eight
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