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Yet only a gladiator, regardless of skill.
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How has he bested our legions?
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Spartacus knows of war,
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and the waging of it from his days in Thrace.
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If rumor is true,
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he fought among the auxiliary beneath the fool Glaber
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before his fall of Vesuvius.
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Then he's familiar with our tactics.
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And has used such knowledge to the regret of those that have pressed him.
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He believes he knows what a "Proper" Roman soldier will do.
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A thing that could be turned toward advantage.
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Would that my own blood stood now so sharp of mind.