CHARACTERS
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EUDEMIUS, a Roman lord living in Britain VARIA, his daughter LIVINIUS, a Roman citizen, a boyhood friend of Eudemius MARIUS, his son, of the Roman legions in Gaul [Guests of Eudemius] MARCUS SILENUS POMPONIUS, Count of the Saxon Shore AURELIUS MENOTUS, duumvir of Anderida FELIX, his son CAIUS JULIUS VALENS, a Roman citizen [Roman girls, daughters of the guests of Eudemius] JULIA NIGIDIA PAULA GRATIA NERISSA, nurse to Varia HITO, master of the household of Eudemius CHLORIS, of all nations, living upon Thorney [Inmates of her house] SADA, a Saxon EUNICE, a Greek ELDRIS, a Briton, a convert to Christianity WARDO, a Saxon, a slave in the house of Eudemius VALERIUS, a Roman, a soldier of fortune TOBIAS, a Hebrew, a worker in ivory RATHUMUS, a British peasant, bound to the soil SUSANNA, a Hebrew woman, his wife NICANOR, a story-teller, their son WULF, the Red, a Saxon free-lance CEAWLIN, a Saxon chieftain FATHER AMBROSE, of the Christian church NICODEMUS, the One-Eyed, a British freedman MYLEIA, his wife MARCUS, a slave in the house of Eudemius BALBUS, a convict JUNCINA, a fish-wife on Thorney SOSIA, her daughter |
A flower-girl, a Saxon singer, slaves, trades-folk, soldiers of the military police; guards and overseers of the mines, and miners; Roman nobles and patrician women; Saxon men-at-arms, and men of the outland nations
| Scene: Britain in the last days of Roman power Time: between A.D. 410 and 446 |
LIST OF TOWNS AND RIVERS
WITH THEIR MODERN SITES AND NAMES
| Abus Flumen | Humber River. |
| Ad Fines | Broughing, Hertfordshire. |
| Anderida | Pevensey. |
| Aquæ Solis | Bath. |
| Bibracte | Unknown. |
| Caledonia | Scotland. |
| Calleva | Silchester. |
| Corinium | Cirencester. |
| Cunetio | Folly Farm, near Marlborough. |
| Deva | Chester. |
| Dubræ | Dover. |
| Eboracum | York. |
| Gobannium | Abergavenny. |
| Glevum | Gloucester. |
| Isca Silurum | Carleon. |
| Leucarum | Llychwr, county of Glamorgan. |
| Londinium | London. |
| Noviomagus | Holwood Hill, parish of Bromley. |
| Pontes | Staines |
| Portus Magnus | Porchester. |
| Ratæ | Leicester. |
| Regnum | Chichester. |
| Rutupiæ | Richborough |
| Sabrina Flumen | Severn River. |
| Serica | China. |
| Tamesis Flumen | Thames River. |
| Tripontium | Near Lilburne. |
| Uriconium | Wroxeter. |
| Urus Flumen | Ouse River. |