"Army of escaped slaves" . . "Decisive Roman victory" . . "The Third Servile War (73\u201371 BC), also called the Gladiator War and the War of Spartacus by Plutarch, was the last of a series of unrelated and unsuccessful slave rebellions against the Roman Republic, known collectively as the Roman Servile Wars.The Third Servile War was the only one to directly threaten the Roman heartland of Italy and was doubly alarming to the Roman people due to the repeated successes of the rapidly growing band of escaped former slaves against the Roman army between 73 and 71 BC. "@en . "3,000+militia" . . . . "Roman Republic" . . . "8Roman legions of 4,000\u20136,000 Infantrymen + auxiliaries (32,000\u201348,000 Infantry + auxiliaries, total)" . "Third Servile War"@en . . . . . . . . . "12,000 garrison troops, composition unknown." . . . "120,000 escaped slaves and gladiators, including non-combatants; total number of combatants unknown" . . . . . "30,000 (including Crixus) killed by Lucius Gellius Publicola, 6000 crucified by Crassus, 5000 routed and crucified by Pompey, almost all others are killed or crucified" . .