Aemilia Pudentilla: married first to Sicinius Amicus and then to Apuleius; mother of Sicinius Pontianus and Sicinius Pudens.

Appii: friends of Apuleius at Oea, including Appius Quintianus, accused of joining with him to perform magical rites. 

Apuleius: defendant, second husband of Aemilia Pudentilla.

Calpurnianus: a friend of Apuleius who produced allegedly incriminating evidence against him.

Capitolina: owner of some wood that Cornelius Saturninus made into a statuette.

Cassius Longinus: tutor (representative at law) of Pudentilla.

Claudius Maximus: proconsul of Africa 158/9, presiding at Apuleius’s trial.

Cornelius Saturninus: woodworker.

Corvinius Celer: public treasurer (quaestor publicus) of Oea.

Gavii: adversaries in a suit against Apuleius’s wife Pudentilla.

(L. Hedius Rufus) Lollianus Avitus: proconsul of Africa (probably) 157/8.

Herennia (?): daughter of Herennius Rufinus; the widow of Sicinius Pontianus, and intended by her father as wife of his younger brother Pudens.

Herennius Rufinus: allegedly son of a bankrupt father, father of (Herennia).

Iunius Crassus: owner of the house in which Apuleius and Appius Quintianus allegedly practiced magic. 

(Q.) Lollius Urbicus: Prefect of the City who heard a case involving Sicinius Aemilianus.

Saturninus: craftsman in wood.

(Sicinius—): father of the following three Sicinii.

Sicinius Aemilianus: principal accuser, uncle of Sicinius Pontianus and Sicinius Pudens.

Sicinius Amicus: first husband of Aemilia Pudentilla.

Sicinius Clarus: intended by his father, Sicinius—, to be Pudentilla’s second husband, after the death of Amicus.

Sicinius Pontianus: Roman knight, elder son of Sicinius Amicus and Aemilia Pudentilla, now dead.

Sicinius Pudens: younger son of Sicinius Amicus and Aemilia Pudentilla, collaborating with Herennius Rufinus and Sicinius Aemilianus in their case against Apuleius.

Tannonius Pudens: advocatus (representative in court) of Sicinius Aemilianus and Sicinius Pudens.

Thallus: slave of Apuleius, allegedly used by him in performing magic.