Sullivani

The Sullivani are a band of twelve mercenaries led by Sulla, whose threatened intervention makes them the armed force behind a network of competing demands involving Anita, Felicia, and Honuphrius. They appear not as independent actors with a developed history, but as a collective whose anticipated violence shapes the choices of others.

Identity and Leadership

The group is identified as twelve mercenaries under Sulla’s leadership. Their stated role is to help him exert pressure on Anita; the account gives no separate names or individual actions for the members. Their collective identity matters because the threat is more than a private demand: Sulla can call on an organized band to enforce it.

Threats and Stakes

Magravius threatens that Sulla will have Anita molested if she refuses to yield to him and to deceive Honuphrius by performing her marital duty when required. The Sullivani therefore enter the dispute as the force backing a threat against Anita, while the surrounding account places Felicia’s virginity and Honuphrius’s conduct among the stakes of the competing schemes. Anita weighs yielding to Honuphrius against the danger posed by Sulla and his men, but also fears that doing so could contribute to misconduct between Eugenius and Jeremias.

Narrative Function

The band’s brief appearance gives the episode’s elaborate allegations a concrete instrument of power: private rivalries are entangled with the prospect of mercenary enforcement. Fortissa’s warning, encouraged by Gregorius, Leo, Vitellius, and Macdugalius, further connects Anita’s predicament to reports of Honuphrius’s harsh treatment and to Sulla’s own compromised conduct. The account does not report an attack by the Sullivani or resolve Anita’s dilemma; their significance lies in the threat of what they may be made to do.