_ To you, whose love did come
And oft did sing to me,
When I was working in the furrows.
CHARACTERS
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
MARCUS SILENUS POMPONIUS, Count of the }
Saxon Shore }
AURELIUS MENOTUS, duumvir of Anderida } Guests of
FELIX, his son } Eudemius
CAIUS JULIUS VALENS, a Roman citizen }
JULIA }
NIGIDIA } Roman girls, daughters of the
PAULA } guests of Eudemius
GRATIA }
NERISSA, nurse to Varia
HITO, master of the household of Eudemius
CHLORIS, of all nations, living upon Thorney
SADA, a Saxon } inmates of her house 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.
Aquae Solis Bath.
Bibracte Unknown.
Caledonia Scotland.
Calleva Silchester.
Corinium Cirencester.
Cunetio Folly Farm, near Marlborough.
Deva Chester.
Dubrae 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.
Ratae Leicester.
Regnum Chichester.
Rutupiae Richborough
Sabrina Flumen Severn River.
Serica China.
Tamesis Flumen Thames River.
Tripontium Near Lilburne.
Uriconium Wroxeter.
Urus Flumen Ouse River.
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