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AHENOBARBUS, LUCIUS DOMITIUS patrician senator; praetor in 58 BC; married to Cato’s sister; a determined enemy of Caesar

ANTONY, MARK (MARCUS ANTONIUS) renowned as a brave and enterprising soldier under Caesar’s command in Gaul; grandson of a famous orator and consul; stepson of one of the Catiline conspirators executed by Cicero

ATTICUS, TITUS POMPONIUS Cicero’s closest friend; an equestrian, an Epicurean, immensely wealthy; brother-in-law to Quintus Cicero, who is married to his sister, Pomponia

BALBUS, LUCIUS CORNELIUS wealthy Spaniard originally allied to Pompey and then to Caesar, whose homme d’affaires he became in Rome

BIBULUS, MARCUS CALPURNIUS Caesar’s colleague as consul in 59 BC, and his staunch opponent

BRUTUS, MARCUS JUNIUS direct descendant of the Brutus who drove the kings from Rome and established the republic in the sixth century BC; son of Servilia, nephew of Cato; the great figurehead of the constitutionalists

CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS former consul; a member of the ‘triumvirate’ with Pompey and Crassus; governor of three Roman provinces – Nearer and Further Gaul and Bithynia; six years Cicero’s junior; married to Calpurnia, daughter of L. Calpurnius Piso

CALENUS, QUINTUS FUFIUS an old crony of Clodius and Antony; a supporter of Caesar and an enemy of Cicero; father-in-law of Pansa

CASSIUS, GAIUS LONGINUS senator and able soldier; married to Servilia’s daughter, Junia Tertia, and thus Brutus’s brother-in-law

CATO, MARCUS PORCIUS half-brother of Servilia; uncle of Brutus; a Stoic and a stern upholder of the traditions of the republic

CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS JUNIOR Cicero’s son

CICERO, QUINTUS TULLIUS Cicero’s younger brother; senator and soldier; married to Pomponia, the sister of Atticus; governor of Asia, 61–58 BC

CICERO, QUINTUS TULLIUS JUNIOR Cicero’s nephew

CLODIA daughter of one of the most distinguished families in Rome, the patrician Appii Claudii; the sister of Clodius; the widow of Metellus Celer

CLODIUS PULCHER, PUBLIUS scion of the leading patrician dynasty, the Appii Claudii; a former brother-in-law of L. Lucullus; the brother of Clodia, with whom he is alleged to have had an incestuous affair; at his trial for sacrilege Cicero gave evidence against him; transferred to the plebs at the instigation of Caesar and elected tribune

CORNUTUS, MARCUS one of Caesar’s officers, appointed urban praetor in 44 BC

CRASSIPES, FURIUS Tullia’s second husband; a senator; a friend of Crassus

CRASSUS, MARCUS LICINIUS former consul; member of the ‘triumvirate’; brutal suppressor of the slave revolt led by Spartacus; the richest man in Rome; a bitter rival of Pompey

CRASSUS, PUBLIUS son of Crassus the triumvir; cavalry commander under Caesar in Gaul; an admirer of Cicero

DECIMUS properly styled BRUTUS, DECIMUS JUNIUS ALBINUS, but not to be confused with BRUTUS (above); brilliant young military commander in Gaul; a protégé of Caesar

DOLABELLA, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS Tullia’s third husband; one of Caesar’s closest lieutenants – young, charming, precocious, ambitious, licentious, brutal

FULVIA wife of Clodius; subsequently married to Mark Antony

HIRTIUS, AULUS one of Caesar’s staff officers in Gaul, groomed for a political career; a noted gourmet, a scholar who helped Caesar with his Commentaries

HORTENSIUS HORTALUS, QUINTUS former consul, for many years the leading advocate at the Roman bar, until displaced by Cicero; a leader of the patrician faction; immensely wealthy; like Cicero, a civilian politician and not a soldier

ISAURICUS, PUBLIUS SERVILIUS VATIA a patrician, son of one of the grand old men of the Senate, who nevertheless chose to support Caesar; elected praetor in 54 BC

LABIENUS, TITUS a soldier and former tribune from Pompey’s home region of Picenum; one of Caesar’s ablest commanders in Gaul

LEPIDUS, MARCUS AEMILIUS patrician senator, married to a daughter of Servilia; member of the College of Pontiffs

MILO, TITUS ANNIUS a tough street-wise politician, an owner of gladiators

NEPOS, QUINTUS CAECILIUS METELLUS consul at the time of Cicero’s return from exile

OCTAVIAN, GAIUS JULIUS CAESAR Caesar’s great-nephew and heir

PANSA, GAIUS VIBIUS one of Caesar’s commanders in Gaul