HIST 1001 Chapter : History11
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Appian, the civil wars: revolt of spartacus: 111. The following year, which was in the 176th olympiad, two countries were acquired by the romans by bequest. Bithynia was left to them by nicomedes, and cyrene by ptolemy apion, of the house of the. They overcame the guards and ran away, arming themselves with clubs daggers that they took from people on the roads and took refuge on mount vesuvius. There many fugitive slaves and even some freemen from the fields joined spartacus, and he plundered the neighboring country, having for subordinate officers two gladiators named oenomaus and crixus. As he divided the plunder impartially he soon had plenty of men. Spartacus even captured the horse of varinius; so narrowly did a roman praetor escape being captured by a gladiator. After this still greater numbers flocked to spartacus till his army numbered 70,000 men. For these he manufactured weapons and collected apparatus: rome now sent out the consuls with two legions.
