Sabina

Sabina, a character in the A Courtesan of Rome book, is Cassius's cousin and one of your love interests. She is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Sabina has tan skin, brown eyes and long brown curly hair. She wears a long pale blue robe with golden rims, a golden necklace and a golden Alice band.

Personality
Sabina is very shy and insecure. She is afraid of strangers, especially men. Soon it's revealed that she was mistreated by her father and abused by her husband. However, she is brave enough to sneak into Locusta's apothecary to get a contraceptive potion in order to defy her husband.

Meeting Main Character and developing a relationship with her gives Sabina strength and courage.

A Courtesan of Rome

 * Chapter 1: A Princess of Gaul
 * Chapter 4: The Hunt
 * Chapter 5: Red-Handed
 * Chapter 7: A Fighting Chance
 * Chapter 8: The Goddess of Watching
 * Chapter 9: Power Vacuum
 * Chapter 10: Snakes in the Grass
 * Chapter 12: Raising The Stakes
 * Chapter 14: A Twist of Fate
 * Chapter 16: Triumph
 * Chapter 18: The Die is Cast
 * Chapter 19: A Warrior's Death
 * Chapter 20: The Liberators
 * Chapter 21: The Ides of March

Cassius Longinus
Cassius is Sabina's cousin and probably the only man whom she trusts. She visits him sometimes.

Main Character
She is one of the Main Character's love interests. When Main Character meets her at Locusta's apothecary, Main Character has the option of sharing a vision with her. In Chapter 8, she tells Main Character about the goddess Nemesis and Main Character can choose to make an offering to the goddess on behalf of Syphax. Sabina tells Main Character that she prayed to Nemesis to free her from her marriage. Main Character learns that she is an amateur haruspex and can interpret omens by inspecting the entrails of sacrificial animals.

Legate Aquila
Since Sabina never mentions his name, Main Character is unaware that her friend is Aquila's wife. It's revealed at the very end of Chapter 9.

In Chapter 4, when Main Character meets her in Locusta's apothecary, Sabina hints that her husband mistreats her. She says that after spending nearly a decade in Gaul, he may be a stranger to her, and he wasn't kind man before. That's why she decided to not bear children to him, to not give him more power over her, nor offer another innocent to him. If Main Character persuades her to stand up to him, startled Sabina protests that he's a soldier, he wouldn't hesitate to... what may suggest that he either used to beat her, or even threatened her to kill her. Later, in a premium scene, she shares her memories with Main Character. It's revealed that she was wed as a child, freshly after her first bleeding. This marriage was arranged by her father for political reasons, and Sabina felt like she was sold into slavery. Her future husband was much older than her, and he scared her. Soon it revealed that he was cruel person, who abused her in many ways.

Later, when Sabina trusts Main Character more, she speaks of abuse more openly. In a premium scene in Chapter 7 she reveals that her husband forced her into sex. He also once restricted her freedom and spied on her out of irrational jealousy, but he eventually relented. In Chapter 14 Sabina reveals that her husband mocked her for reading Sapho's poetry, and burned most of her books. He also struck Sabina when he caught her writing a poetry of her own.

In Chapter 8 Sabina reveals that she once used to pray and make offerings to Nemesis, a Roman goddess of justice and vengeance, to free her from Aquila. When it hadn't happened, she stopped visiting her temple.

In Chapter 16, when Main Character gets rid of Aquila by either killing or compromising him, Sabina gains control of the estate and her life. However, it's only temporary. When Caesar returns to Rome, he claims Aquila's property as a payment of the latter's debts. If Main Character decides to seduce Caesar, Cleopatra or both of them in Chapter 18, it reveals that Aquila's debt was a convenient excuse for Caesar to establish his mistress in Rome, far from Calpurnia's sight.

Father
Sabina's father divorced her mother when Sabina was five years old. Under Roman law, children belonged to their fathers, so her mother was not there to protect her from him. He placed her in an arranged marriage so that her new husband would give him political support.

Locusta
When Sabina first goes to Locusta's shop, it is to gather a potion that would prevent her from bearing Aquila's children. After he is killed or exiled and his property falls to Caesar, Locusta takes Sabina in and trains her to work with herbs and poisons. Locusta decided to take her on as an apprentice because she wanted someone to pass her knowledge to who would use it for the good of women who trust in her.