Trivia
- Social class relationships: Falco (plebeian) is "married" to Helena Justina, daughter of a senator (patrician), and he is trying to improve his status.
- Family relationships: Falco, a pater familias, is trying to harmonize his family life with his job.
- Togidubnus, who lived at Fishbourne in Chichester, is the same man as Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, but there is some controversy as to how his name should be spelled.
- As paterfamilias of a large, wrangling and not always socially secure family at risk from accusations of impiety, Falco, who has little enough time for the Roman deities, let alone for foreign superstitions and cults, is somewhat prejudiced against Jews, Christians, followers of Cybele, and adherents of other barbarian religions.
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