The largest mass execution of this type that history records took place at the end of a revolt led by Spartacus (73 - 71 B.C.E.), when 6,000 slaves and gladiators were executed along the road leading from Capua to Rome.
در این شورش ۶۰۰۰ برده و گلادیاتور در جادهٔ بین کاپوا و روم به این شکل کشته شدند .‏