They were shaved, bathed, fed, and housed by Batiatus, who had the former gladiator Marcellus drill them in combat. Spartacus and the other slaves were shipped across the Mediterranean to southern Italy and were then carted to Capua, where they were taken to Batiatus' gladiatorial school. Captain Marcus Babudius Cosmas had him tied up to a rock with the intent of starving him to death under the sun, but the visiting lanista Lentulus Batiatus took note of Spartacus' physique (including his healthy teeth) and decided to buy him and make him a gladiator. Marcus Babudius Cosmas and Lentulus Batiatus inspecting a shackled SpartacusĪccording to the second, more popular, narrative, Spartacus was sentenced to death in 73 BC after assaulting his guards when they attempted to stop him from helping to free the dying slave Selenium Anullinus from the basket of rocks which was crushing him. Spartacus was born in southern Thrace to the Maedi tribe, and his origins were unknown. One legend claimed that he was a brave warrior who was married to Sura, fought as an auxiliary with the Roman Republic against the Getae in 73 BC, and was betrayed and sold into slavery by the legate Gaius Claudius Glaber another tale claimed that he had been a third-generation slave born to an illiterate slave woman, and had been sold into slavery in the mines of Libya before his thirteenth birthday.
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