Two For The Lions

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS

Friends

M. Didius Falco

Director of Falco & Partner, auditors to the Census

Anacrites

Temporary partner in Falco & Partner, a protégé

Ma

Permanent protector of Anacrites

Helena Justina

Permanent partner of Falco

Julia Junilla

Infant child of Falco and Helena

Pa (Geminus)

Ex-partner of, and in need of protection from, Ma

Maia

Falco's youngest sister, looking for her chance

Famia

Maia's husband, looking for a drink

D. Camillus Verus

A senator, father to Helena, looking for his son

Q. Camillus Justinus

An idealist, looking for a plant

Claudia Rufina

An heiress disappointed in love

A. Camillus Aelianus

A hopeful, disappointed in money

Lenia

Looking to let go of her husband

Smaractus

Looking to hang on to his wife's cash

Rodan & Asiacus

Deadbeats, regularly beaten and usually half-dead

Thalia

An exotic circus manager

Romans

Vespasian Augustus

Emperor and Censor, building the Flavian Amphitheater

Antonia Caenis

Mistress and long-term partner to the Emperor

Claudius Laeta

Senior administrator at the Palace, a loner

Rutilius Gallicus

Special Envoy to Tripolitania

Romanus

An unknown

Scilla

A wild girl looking for a legal device

Pomponius Urtica

A praetor who never did anything illegal

Rumex

A celebrity graffiti

Buxus

An animal keeper

An elderly gooseboy

Just looking at birds all day

Tripolitanians

Saturninus

A gladiators' trainer, from Lepcis Magna

Euphrasia His wife, who has promised to say nothing

Calliopus A venatio specialist, from Oea

Artemisia His wife, who can't say anything as she isn't there

Hanno A man who can afford to pay his taxes, from Sabratha

Myrrha Who may say something, but only in Punic

Iddibal A far from beastly bestiarius

Fidelis A faithful interpreter

Animals

Nux

A personable pup, commander of the Falco household

Leonidas

A friendly lion, who is due to make a killer dead meat

Draco

A very unfriendly lion

Anethum

A performer who brings lying doggo to perfection

Also featuring

Borago the bear,

Ruta the alleged aurochs,

Ostriches,

Pigeons,

Lions,

Stone lions,

a Leopardess

By Special Request

Jason the python

And Introducing

The Sacred Geese of Juno

Jurisdictions of the Vigiles Cohorts in Rome:

Coh I

Regions VII & VIII (Via Lata, Forum Romanum)

Coh II

Regions III & V (Isis and Serapis, Esquiline)

Coh III

Regions IV & VI (Temple of Peace, Alta Semita)

Coh IV

Regions XII & XIII (Piscina Publica, Aventine)

Coh V

Regions I & II (Porta Capena, Caelimontium)

Coh VI

Regions X & XI (Palatine, Circus Maximus)

Coh VII

Regions IX & XIV (Circus Flaminius, Transtiberina)

Tripolitania and Cyrenaïca