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|name= Caecilia Evelina
|image   = Evelina (TFOP).jpg
|image= Evelina Caecilius Iucundus.jpg
|species = Human
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|origin = [[Earth]]
|species=Human
|mother  = Metella
|origin= [[Earth]]
|father  = Lobus Caecilius
 
|brother = Quintus
|only= The Fires of Pompeii
|only   = The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)
|actor= Francesca Fowler  
|actor   = Francesca Fowler
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|clip    = Peter Capaldi's 1st Appearance in Doctor Who - Doctor Who - Fires of Pompeii - BBC
 
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'''Caecilia Evelina''', daughter of marble merchant [[Lucius Caecilius Iucundus]] and his wife, [[Metella]], was a young Roman woman living in [[Pompeii]] on the eve of its destruction.
'''Evelina''', daughter of marble merchant [[Lobus Caecilius]] and his wife, [[Metella]], was a young [[Roman]] woman living in [[Pompeii]] on the eve of its destruction in [[August]] [[79]].


Evelina showed some precognitive abilities, and so was promised to the [[Sibylline Sisterhood]], a local cult of oracles influenced by the alien [[Pyrovile]]s, as a consecrated priestess.
Evelina showed some precognitive abilities, and so was promised to the [[Sibylline Sisterhood]], a local cult of oracles influenced by the alien [[Pyrovile]]s, as a consecrated priestess.


Like her parents and brother, [[Quintus Caecilius Iucundus|Quintus]], Evelina was spared from Pompeii's destruction by the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s timely intervention.
Like her parents and brother [[Quintus]], Evelina was spared from Pompeii's destruction by the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s timely intervention.


Her [[psychic]] abilities vanished with the [[Pyrovile]]s (the Doctor explained that her ability to see the future was due to [[Mount Vesuvius]]' eruption being so powerful that it cracked open a [[Time rift|rift in time]] for a second and the effects echoed backward through time), so she was free to be an ordinary young woman once more and date, to her father's consternation. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii]]'')
Her [[psychic]] abilities vanished with the Pyroviles and the city — the Doctor explained that her ability to see the future was due to [[Mount Vesuvius]]' eruption being so powerful that it cracked open a [[Time rift|rift in time]] for a second and the effects echoed backward through time — so she was free to be an ordinary young woman once more and date, to her father's consternation. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
* The [[Caecilius]] family ([[Lucius Caecilius Iucundus|Caecilius]], [[Metella Caecilius Iucundus|Metella]] and [[Quintus Caecilius Iucundus|Quintus]]) were based upon characters used in the Cambridge Latin Course textbooks (Book 1), who were in turn based on actual historical characters, but Evelina was invented by [[James Moran]] so that she could be a member of the Sibylline Sisterhood.
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*The episode [[The Fires of Pompeii]] reused some of the sets from the HBO/BBC Drama [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_(TV_series) Rome], in which the actress [[Francesca Fowler]] previously appeared as the minor character Egeria.
 
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Evelina, daughter of marble merchant Lobus Caecilius and his wife, Metella, was a young Roman woman living in Pompeii on the eve of its destruction in August 79.

Evelina showed some precognitive abilities, and so was promised to the Sibylline Sisterhood, a local cult of oracles influenced by the alien Pyroviles, as a consecrated priestess.

Like her parents and brother Quintus, Evelina was spared from Pompeii's destruction by the Tenth Doctor's timely intervention.

Her psychic abilities vanished with the Pyroviles and the city — the Doctor explained that her ability to see the future was due to Mount Vesuvius' eruption being so powerful that it cracked open a rift in time for a second and the effects echoed backward through time — so she was free to be an ordinary young woman once more and date, to her father's consternation. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii)

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