List of The Roman Mysteries Characters - B

B

Bar Mnason

Bar Mnason is the son of animal trainer, Mnason, and, in a way similar to Nubia, has a gift with animals, notably the lion Monobaz. He befriends Nubia during The Gladiators from Capua, and assists her, alongside his father, in saving Flavia's life.

Bato

Marcus Artorius Bato is an intelligent magistrate in Ostia who assists the children in their mysteries. Although appearing as a foil for Flavia in The Thieves of Ostia and in The Assassins of Rome (in the latter he arrests Mordecai by mistake), he is a helpful ally to the children in The Colossus of Rhodes. However, in The Slave-girl from Jerusalem he betrays Flavia and her friends while they are pleading a case and Flavia feels he is a traitor. She almost says so to his face, if not for Aristo's intervention.

Berenice

Berenice is a former Jewish queen, the mistress of Titus. She appears in The Enemies of Jupiter and is mentioned in The Assassins of Rome.

Bulbus

The doorslave of the Cornix household, Bulbus is similar to Caudex, although possibly even more unintelligent. In The Assassins of Rome he is said to have "the brain of an onion, a very small onion" by Sisyphus, slave and secretary to Senator Aulus Cornix.