Ben Kane

And the previous two had rumbled on for years because the Romans...

And they had a very low opinion of slaves.

Well, there's only slaves.

What do we care?

So when they decided to act, the Senate being the ruling body of Rome at the time, um, there were no, there were no emperors.

Remember they sent a, they, they designated this rebellion as a tumultuous, as in the word tumultuous, which is basically just an upset.

It wasn't a bellum.

It wasn't a war because it was just slaves.

This is a little problem, a little problem.

So little problem equals we don't need to send real soldiers.

At this time, you know, not in an active massive war like they were against Hannibal, for example, the Republic had four legions each year, and they were commanded by two consuls, the most senior magistrates of the Roman Republic.

So each consul had two legions.

They didn't send them.

They sent a praetor, who was a justice lower down the ranking to a consul, of which there were either six or eight.

They sent a praetor called Caius Claudius Glaber.

And he didn't have any troops because the only sort of troops that were ready to go would have been the consul's legions.

So he quite possibly recruited veterans and just men from towns or from Rome.

It's like a town watch kind of thing.

Yeah, on his way south.

But what we know is that he had about 3,000 men by the time he reached Vesuvius, the area of Vesuvius.