List of The Roman Mysteries Characters - S

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Scopas

Scopas appears in The Charioteer of Delphi. Scopas is Flavia's and Nubia's friend in Rome who races chariots. He has autism, a condition not diagnosed in Roman times, so the friends think he is strange. However, Nubia likes him and one of the horses he races, a dark stallion called Pegasus. At the end of the novel, Scopas wins his very first race in Rome, a thing that is almost unheard of. The twins, Quintus and Sextus mistakenly call him Scorpus, causing everyone else in the hippodrome to call him that. Scopas says that: "Scorpus can be my new name for my new life", mimicking a phrase that Nubia uses.

Scuto

Scuto is Flavia's dog. He was beaten before he joined their household, but is now happy and confident.

Seth

Seth ben Aaron is a young Jewish scribe at the Library of Alexandria. He escorts Flavia and her friends on a journey up the Nile to find Nubia. He appears in The Scribes from Alexandria.

Sextus

Sextus was one of the sailors on Marcus's old ship, the Myrtilla, when it sunk. However, he survived and found refuge in Rhodes. He was contacted by the slave-trader Magnus and was offered money if he could stop Flavia, Marcus and the rest of the Delphina's (the name of Marcus's new ship) crew from stopping Magnus. Sextus agreed and then tied up Flavia, Johnathan and Nubia on the Delphina. He planned to use it to sell them and the other kidnapped children around the Roman empire. But he is caught and arrested by the vigiles.

Sextus first appears in The Thieves of Ostia, but his main appearance is in The Colossus of Rhodes.

Simeon

Simeon ben Jonah is Jonathan's uncle, Susannah's brother. He appears in The Assassins of Rome. A former Sicari now a slave in Corinth, he has been hired by Berenice to assassinate her rival Susannah the Beautiful, who he guesses is his sister. Determined to protect her from the two other assassins, he journeys to Rome with Jonathan. After some misadventures, he is appointed steward of the Golden House by Titus.

He falls in love with Rachel, Rizpah's mother, but before they can marry dies of the fever (The Enemies of Jupiter).

Sisyphus

Aulus Caesilius Sisyphus is a Greek freedman and scribe to Aulus Caesilius Cornix and friend of Flavia Gemina. He is interested in the mysteries Flavia and her friends solve and tries to help out in them. He is rather vain and fastidious.

Sisyphus first appears in The Assassins of rome.

Susannah

Susannah bat Jonah, known as Susannah the Beautiful, is Jonathan's mother. She remained behind in Jerusalem when Mordecai and the children left, leading them to believe she had been killed. In fact she stayed to be with her first love, Jonathan the Zealot, and because her father, a Jewish priest, disapproved of her husband's conversion to Christianity and his "cowardice" in refusing to fight the Romans. Her parents and Jonathan died in the siege and she was enslaved, becoming a handmaiden to Berenice in the Golden House. After Berenice's departure, she befriends Titus, who shows interest in her faith and her opinions. After being found by Jonathan in The Assassins of Rome, she tells him she has thought of him every day since they parted, but she cannot come back with him as Titus needs her.

In The Enemies of Jupiter she returns to live with her family. However, she has a separate room from Mordecai. She appears to be restless and spends a lot of time wandering around Ostia.