APPIUS
Flavius Appius Julianus the elder, a retired general
FLAVIUS
Flavius Appius Julianus the younger, his son
CORREUS
Appius’s son by a slave, later given the name Correus Appius Julianus
JULIA
Appia Julia, daughter of Appius and his wife
ANTONIA
Wife of Appius and mother of Flavius and Julia
HELVA
A slave, Appius’s mistress and Correus’s mother
ALAN
Ex-cavalryman, a Briton, master of the cavalry remounts raised on Appius’s estate
DIULIUS
Freed slave and former chariot driver, master of the chariot horses raised by Appius
SABINUS
Former centurion and staff aide to Appius, now weapons master to Appius’s sons
FORST
A German slave
PHILIPPOS
Steward of Appius’s estate
NIARCHOS
In charge of the indoor servants in Appius’s household
EMER
A kitchen maid
THAIS
Former nurse of Flavius and Correus
AEMELIUS
A senator and neighbor of Appius
AEMELIA
His daughter
VALERIA LUCILLA
His wife
PERTINAX AQUILA
Camp prefect at the training camp of the Centuriate
MUCIUS
Drillmaster at the training camp
GENTELIUS PAULINUS
A senator and an old comrade of Appius
PROBUS
Camp prefect at Argentoratum
PAULINUS
Lucius Paulinus, a historian, nephew of Gentilius Paulinus
TULLIUS
Ex-legionary, servant of Paulinus
SILVANUS
Centurion in the Eighth Legion Augusta
VERUS
Silvanus’s body servant
BERICUS
Flavius’s body servant
CALPURNIUS RUFINUS
Legate of the Eighth Augusta
MESSALA COMINIUS
Commander of the Eighth Cohort of the Eighth Augusta
LABIENUS
Senior surgeon of the Eighth Augusta
LUCANUS
Labienus’s junior surgeon
ANSET
An Egyptian wineshop keeper
RHODOPE
A madam
JULIUS
A slave
BEORN
A German trader
QUINTUS
A man of Correus’s century
NYALL
Nyall Sigmundson, chieftain of the Semnones
MORGIAN
Nyall’s mother
LYTING
Nyall’s nephew
KARI
Son of a Roman woman and a warrior of the Semnones
GEIR
A Semnone warrior, Nyall’s envoy
HALLGERD
A Semnone woman
GILLI
Called Gilli the Lame, Hallgerd’s brother
ASUIN
A priest of the Semnones
ARNGUNN
Chieftain of the Nicretes
GUDRUN
His wife
FIORGYN
His daughter
SAEUNN
One of Fiorgyn’s waiting women
VALGERD
A priest of the Nicretes
ARNI, INGALD, RANVIG
Warriors of the Nicretes
HOSKULD
Chieftain of the Suarines
JORUNN
One of the ten chieftains of the Agri Decumates
FRIETA
A woman of Jorunn’s tribe