Laetus, Marcia, and one athlete – assassin of Roman emperor Commodus Planner: Laetus Assassins: Marcia and an unnamed athlete who strangled the emperor in his bath when Marcia's poison worked too slowly.
... Katarina (Kitty) whom he has previously been courting.
As the novel opens, Stiva's friend Levin has returned Moscow from his country estate with the intention of ...