![]() Crassus sends Tiberius ahead with instructions to observe Sinuessa and wait. The aristocrat last needs a rich, ambitious ally to pay his debts and finance his campaign, but loses points with Marcus by cockily playing with his slave-lover. Eldest son Tiberius hopes his help will be rewarded with second rank, but fears being side-tracked in favor of seasoned young, general Caius Julius Caesar. Marcus Crassus completes preparing his legionary army. Spartacus decides his army now needs a city to pass the winter, and lets escaped local slave Diotimos inspire his war council to choose and plan how to take over well-guarded Sinue (modern Sinuessa). ![]() So Metellus turns to immensely rich, ambitious Marcus Crassus, who accepts, to eager son Tiberius's frustration without even negotiating an accordingly exalted status or mandate, and continuous private. The senate fears Rome itself may be endangered but lacks funds and men to mount a suitably large army. First he and a trusted band sneak up to the commanders' hideout villa to slay them. Realizing hiding will be much harder in winter, Spartacus decides to capture a town. ![]() Furius and Cossinius can't capture the rebel slaves army, nor properly keep their plans secret. ![]()
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