Plot summary
Licinia, a rich noblewoman and cousin of senator Marcus Crassus, visits from Rome and asks Lucretia to "taste the wares of ludus " with Spartacus. Lucretia, mindful that Spartacus had not been with a woman since his capture, instructs a female slave named Mira to prepare him for his encounter, but Spartacus rejects her. Ilithyia, suspecting her rich friend's desires, also decides on a masked sexual encounter. Jealously enraged by her choice of Crixus (who has recently resumed training), Lucretia sets up to have Ilithyia discovered in bed by Licinia. Shocked after it is revealed that both intended to use the scandal against her, Ilythia suddenly kills Licinia.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the ludus, Batiatus' plan to kill Solonius is undermined by a slighted Ashur, Crixus makes enemies of two new German brothers Agron and Duro, Varro's wife and son have gone missing, and Naevia steals a guard's key for an illicit tryst.
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