Roman nomenclature: ha, I remember how this annoyed me when I first read The Silver Pigs but soon I was captivated enough that I thought, what the hell, I don‘t care, I love this.

It wasn‘t until I started to read up on the later Roman era, though, that I realised where Lindsey Davis got at least two of her names from - given that in the year of the Five Emperors after Commodus got assassinated, you have a Didius and a Pertinax among the five…