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*The Caecilius family are based on stock characters used in Latin textbooks. | *The Caecilius family are based on stock characters used in Latin textbooks. | ||
*In the Latin textbooks, only [[Quintus]] survives the eruption and [[Evelina]] did not exist. | *In the Latin textbooks, only [[Quintus]] survives the eruption and [[Evelina]] did not exist. | ||
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Revision as of 16:15, 27 June 2008
The Caecilius family, a middle-class Roman family of four, lived in Pompeii in A.D. 79, just before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Family members
- Father: prosperous marble merchant Lucius Caecilius Iucundus
- Mother: devout housewife Metella Caecilius Iucundus
- Son: rebellious youth Quintus Caecilius Iucundus
- Daughter: concecrated priestess Evelina Caecilius Iucundus
They were spared the fate of their fellow Pompeiians by the Doctor's timely intervention. By early A.D. 80, the family had resettled in Rome. (DW: The Fires of Pompeii) One of the family--likely Lucius--wrote an account of their escape from Pompeii; the scroll was recovered in a 1923 archaeological expedition by Professor Livesy-Smythe.
