Three Hands in The Fountain

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

Julia Junilla – a baby at the centre of attention;

Didius Falco – a new father, who is said to need a partner;

Helena Justina – his partner at home and at work, a new mother;

Petronius Longus – a troubleshooter, but in trouble;

Arria Silvia – his wife, who has just shot him down;

Julia's doting grand-mama;

Julia's grandfather, the idealistic senator;

Julia's other doting grandmama;

Aelianus – who knows he wants to get married;

Justinus – who seems to have no idea what he wants;

Claudia – whose fortune is what Aelianus wants to marry;

Gaius – Falco's nephew, a lad about town;

Lollius – his absentee father, who has turned up a tunic braid twister, allegedly;

Rubella – tough but fair tribune of the Fourth Cohort of vigiles;

Fusculus – loyal (but hopeful) stand-in for Petronius;

Martinus – jealous but relocated rival for Petro's job;

Sergius – whose punishments leave his victims half dead;

Scythax – the cohort doctor, who likes his patients alive;

Lovers, Supervisors, Victims and Suspects:

Balbina Milvia the cause of Petro's trouble;

Cornella Flaccida her mother; positively awful (and awfully positive);

Florius Milvia's husband; completely negative;

Anon a registrar of births; dead miserable;

Silvius Brixius registrars of the dead; happy types;

S. Julius Frontinus; yes, that Frontinus! a real person;

Statius an engineer; too important to know or do anything;

Bolanus his assistant, who knows it and does it;

Cordus a public slave hoping for a finder's fee;

Caius Cicurrus a corn chandler who has lost his treasure;

Asinia his wife, a good girl, apparently;

Pia her friend, a bad girl indisputably;

Mundus – Pia's lover, a ridiculously poor judge of girls;

Rosius Gratus a very old man who lives out of the way;

Aurelia Maesia his daughter, who likes it that way;

Damon a slow driver with a fast reputation;

Titus, no; not that one; a lad about the country;

Thurius a surly minion;

Some Other Suspects:

250,000 people in the Circus Maximus;

Everyone else who has a job connected with the Games;

All the inhabitants of Tibur, and the nearby countryside;

The man in the street;

Jurisdictions of the Vigiles Cohorts in Rome: