And that’s called playing the long game. | Spartacus

Spartacus was a Thracian soldier-turned-gladiator who became the unlikely leader of the largest slave revolt in Roman history. Around 73 BCE, while held at the gladiatorial school of Lentulus Batiatus in Capua, he and a small group of fellow gladiators staged a daring breakout, arming themselves at first with kitchen tools before seizing real weapons on the road. What began as a jailbreak became a full-scale uprising. Thousands of enslaved people, rural laborers, and desperate free poor flocked