Rome\'s most able general?

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Wow! That's a very innovative nomination. What was the ethnic origin of Spartacus, by the way?

Thracian, however, Thrace was part of the empire by then, wasn't it? Didn't it come under Roman governance in the mid 2nd century BC?
Certainly, if he had been a citizen, he was stripped of it when he became enslaved. Then again, wasn't Julius Caesar labeled an enemy of the Republic, too?

I think that Thrace was a client state till 46 AD.