TERTULLA’S GARDEN
or
THE MIRACLE OF GOOD ST. VALENTINE
Characters
Valentinus, a priest of the Christian Church in Rome.
Asterius, chief officer of the Prefect Calpurnius.
Pertinax, overseer of farm and gardens at the country villa of Asterius.
Nerva, a boy, servant in the town house of Asterius.
Tertulla and Quartilla, unmarried daughters of Asterius.
Maronis, a woman servant in attendance on Tertulla and Quartilla.
Other servants.
Time: The fourteenth of February [the sixteenth day before the Kalends of March] during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius II [A. D. 268-270].