Sicily’s slave revolt (the so-called First Servile…

Sicily’s slave revolt (the so-called First Servile War) has pinned down Roman armies for three years.

Enna, which from its central position and great natural strength has become the center of Eunus’s operations, and the receptacle, of the plunder of Sicily, is the last place that holds out against the proconsul Rupilius, and is at length betrayed into his hands, its impregnable strength having defied all his efforts.

Cleon falls in battle in 132.

After Eunus’s army is defeated by a Roman army under the leadership of Perperna, Eunus, with members of his "court," takes refuge in a cavern, where he is subsequently captured, but dies before he can be punished.

According to Strabo, Enna suffered severely upon this occasion (which, indeed, could scarcely be otherwise); he regards this period as the commencement of its subsequent decline.