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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.