Cleon (died 132 BC) was an enslaved

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n who became a general in the slave rebellion led by Eunus during the First Servile War. He was killed in 132 BC in Sicily. Cleon was taken captive from Cilicia (modern-day Turkey) and enslaved by Romans in Sicily. He met the slave Eunus and became his general when Eunus began his rebellion in 135 BC. In his early success, Eunus declared himself as Antiochus. The large uprising of slaves, estimated by

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and

Orosius Paulus Orosius (; born 375/385 – 420 AD), less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo. It is possible that he was born in '' Bracara Augusta'' (now Braga, Portugal), t ...

to number 70,000, was defeated by Roman forces in 132 BC.''The

Periochae The work called ( en, From the Founding of the City), sometimes referred to as (''Books from the Founding of the City''), is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written in Latin between 27 and 9 BC by Livy, a Roman historian. The work ...

'' and ''Orosius,'' quoted by Brent D. Shaw, ''Spartacus and the Slave Wars'', pp. 95 and 97.

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132 BC deaths Rebel slaves in ancient Rome Year of birth unknown {{AncientRome-bio-stub