List of The Roman Mysteries Characters - H

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Hephzibah

Hephzibah bat David is The Slave-girl from Jerusalem. She is a childhood friend of Miriam and Miriam enlists Flavia and the others to help her find the man who witnessed her manumission, which is being disputed by Lucius Nonius Celer. She is later accused of triple murder and in the quest to proclaim her innocence, the four friends learn she was present during the fall of Jerusalem and also in the siege of Masada, where she was one of the seven survivors. In her former master's will she receives a legacy which makes her very rich.

Miriam confides in her about her vision of an angel telling her she will die giving birth and asks Hephzibah to look after her babies. In The Beggar of Volubilis she is said to be doing so, having moved into Jonathan's house after Gaius disappears.

Huldah

One of the Jewish handmaidens given to Queen Berenice, along with Susannah the Beautiful, Jonathan's mother. She was thrown out of the Golden House for flirting with the Emperor Titus. She appears in The Assassins of Rome.

Hyacinth

Hyacinth Cornix is the second child of Aulus and Cynthia, and the eldest of the girls. She is the sister of Aulus Jnr and Flavia's cousin. She is temperamental, quite tomboyish and commonly bullied and picked on by her older brother, Aulus Jr. She is very fond of her elder cousin, Flavia.

Hyacinth Cornix appears in the following novels in the series:

• The Enemies of Jupiter
• The Gladiators from Capua
• The Charioteer of Delphi