TIRO
The narrator, slave and companion to Cicero and inventor of shorthand system to record his speeches
MARCUS CICERO
An ambitious “backbench” Senator and lawyer - the “second-best advocate in Rome”
TERENTIA
His rich, opinionated, but not beautiful, wife
TULLIA
Their daughter
STHENIUS OF THERMAE
A Sicilian gentleman and collector of bronzes, victim of . . .
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GAIUS VERRES
The corrupt governor of Sicily
HORTENSIUS
An aristocrat. The leading advocate in Rome, and Cicero’s rival at law
MARCUS CRASSUS and POMPEY THE GREAT
The rival chief generals of the Roman Army, locked in a bitter struggle for ultimate power over the Republic
LOLLIUS PALICANUS
Tribune of the Plebs, an ally of Pompey