Pompey had stolen the credit the victory of the Romans over the slave army of Spartacus after returning from a mission in the east which was given to him by the Senate.
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It was the site of the Battle of Ruspina in 46 BC in which Pompey's ally Titus Labienus was able by mere force of numbers to inflict a slight check upon Julius Caesar.