Third Servile War
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Lucius Furius (Brocchus?) was a Roman commander who aided Publius Varinius and Lucius Cossinius against Spartacus in the Third Servile War.[ citation needed ]
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Furius was portrayed by Jared Turner in the Starz original series Spartacus: War of the Damned.
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