Pluma

Pluma was a prostitute in the settlement outside of Brocolitia.The African merchant Tertullus decided to curse his rival merchant, Secundinius, while they were in Brocolita. He spent his first nights Brocolitia with Pluma. She told him about Belatucadrus, a local god who was rather obscure. Believing that a more obscure god would be likely to curse Secundinius, Tertullus created a curse tablet and placed it in Belatucadrus' shrine the next night. Secundinius caught Tertullus, who stabbed Secundinius to death. Tertullus then visited Pluma, and left his bloody cloak. Pluma kept it, and Tertullus though himself in the clear. However, the decurion of Brocolita, Quintus Vestinus Corvus, was too dogged to let the matter go, and collected the cloak from Pluma, along with other evidence, and arrested Tertullus.