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DRAMATIS PERSONAE

The names of historical characters are given in upper case. Only those who appear, or are referred to, in more than one part of the text are included.

Corvinus’s household

Bathyllus: the major-domo

Meton: the chef

Perilla, Rufia: Corvinus’s wife

Imperials, senators, civil servants and the military

ASIATICUS, D Valerius: Gaius’s former brother-in-law; a wealthy senatorial recluse

BASSUS, T Herennius: a junior finance officer (quaestor), friend of Sextus Papinius

CAESONIA: Gaius’s wife

CALLISTUS, Julius: Gaius’s freedman-secretary, de facto head of the imperial fiscal department

CAPITO, C Herennius: Bassus’s father, an imperial fiscal officer (procurator)

CERIALIS, Anicius: a backbench senator

CLAUDIUS, Tiberius: Gaius’s uncle

CLEMENS, M Arrecinus: co-commander of the Praetorian Guard

GAIUS CAESAR: the emperor (Caligula)

GRAECINUS, Julius: senator and philosopher, currently a city judge (praetor)

LONGINUS, Cassius: Surdinus’s erstwhile colleague in the consulship. Currently governor of Asia, but recalled to Rome by Gaius

MESSALINA, Valeria: Claudius’s wife

PAPINIUS, Sextus: a tribune (officer) in the Praetorian Guard

PAPINIUS, Lucius: his brother; also a Praetorian tribune

Surdinus, L Naevius: the victim

Surdinus, L Naevius Junior: his elder son

VINICIANUS, L Annius: a respected and influential senator, friend of Gaius, and Marcus Vinicius’s nephew

VINICIUS, Marcus: a literary friend of Perilla’s, married to Gaius’s sister Livilla

Others

Cilix: a garden slave on Surdinus’s estate

Crispus, Caelius: Corvinus’s acquaintance in the foreign judges’ office; an expert in scandal

Felix, Julius: Gaius’s freedman-spymaster

Gallio, Naevius: Surdinus’s bailiff

Hellenus (Marcus Naevius Surdinus): Surdinus’s estranged younger son

Leonidas: Surdinus’s estate manager

Otillius, Titus: Tarquitia’s husband

Postuma, Naevia: Surdinus’s niece

Secundus, C Vibullius: Corvinus’s friend in army admin

SOSIBIUS, Valerius: a freedman

Sullana, Cornelia: Surdinus’s ex-wife

Tarquitia: Surdinus’s mistress

Trupho: a heavy