The Silver Pigs

IN OTHER PARTS OF ROME

Astia: A drayman's floosie.

Julius Frontinus: A captain in the Praetorian Guard.

Glaucus: A Cilician. Proprietor of a respectable gymnasium: an unusual character.

A hot-wine waiter: (Pungent).

A watchman: (Drunk).

A gardener's horse: (Disposition unknown).

Gaius Flavius Hilaris: Imperial procurator in charge of finance; whose brief includes the silver mines.

Aelia Camilla: The procurator's wife, youngest sister of the senator Camillus Verus and his brother Publius.

Rufrius Vitalis: An ex-centurion of the Second Augustan Legion, living in retirement at Isca Dumnoniorum.

T. Claudius Triferus: (A Briton). Holder of the contract to manage the Imperial silver mine at Vebiodunum in the Mendip Hills.

Cornix: A sadist. Foreman in charge of slaves at the Imperial silver mine.

Simplex: Medical officer to the Second Augustan Legion at Glevum (special interest: surgery).