Cleon (general)

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Cleon (died 132 BC) was an enslaved Cilician who became a general in the slave rebellion led by Eunus during the First Servile War.[1] He was killed in 132 BC in Sicily.

Cleon was taken captive from Cilicia (modern-day Turkey) and enslaved by Romans in Sicily.

Titus Livius and Orosius to number 70,000, was defeated by Roman forces in 132 BC.[3]

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-520-25701-6
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  2. ISBN 978-1-134-33758-3
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  3. Brent D. Shaw
    , Spartacus and the Slave Wars, pp. 95 and 97.


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