_CLITUS_ _a Christian, brother of Epicharis_.
_PISO_ _a nobleman_.
_NATALIS_ _confidential follower of Piso_.
_SCEVINUS_, _a rich lord_ }
_SENECIO_, _an upstart gentleman_ } _courtiers_.
_QUINTIAN_, _a court poet_ }
_PROCULUS_ _Admiral_ (_successor to Anicetus_).
_LATERANUS_ _Consul elect_.
_RUFUS_ _shared prefecture with Tigellinus_.
_FLAVUS_, _a tribune_ }
_ASPER_, _a centurion_ } _under Rufus_.
_VATINIUS_ _Nero’s fool_ (_successor to Paris_).
_CASSIUS_ _a guardsman, distinguished by his size_.
_ACTE_ _Nero’s early mistress_.
_EPICHARIS_ _daughter of a tavern-keeper at Naples_.
_FANNIA_ _Thrasea’s daughter, marries Priscus_.
_PAULLINA_ _wife to Seneca_.
_Officers_, _Attendants_, _Sailors_, _Soldiers_, _Citizens_, _etc._