Proper noun
Spartacus
A Thracian name, notably borne by a gladiator who was one of the slave leaders in a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.
Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero. Alex North
Even Spartacus needs a coach. Breaux Greer
Tyranny produces two results, exactly opposite in character, and which are symbolized in those two great types of the slave in classical times - Epictetus and Spartacus. The one is hatred with its evil train, the other meekness with its Christian graces. Honoré de Balzac
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647 but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach. Victor Hugo
After his tenth birthday in 1922, Erich Honecker became a member of the Spartacus League 's children's group in Wiebelskirchen. Source: Internet
Afterwards, when Spartacus retreated to the Bruttium peninsula in the southwest of Italy, Crassus tried to pen up his armies by building a ditch and a rampart across the peninsula of Rhegium in Bruttium, "from sea to sea." Source: Internet