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- Instance of
- war
- Has part
- Third Servile War
- Participant
- slave
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- Category:Servile Wars
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- Servile Wars
- start time
- 0135-00-00
- end time
- 0071-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Servile Wars were a series of three slave revolts ("servile" is derived from servus, Latin for "slave") in the late Roman Republic:
First Servile War (135−132 BC) — in Sicily, led by Eunus, a former slave claiming to be a prophet, and Cleon from Cilicia
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Servile Wars” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.