Caesar is definitely a carnivore, but he's tricky. He's ruthless but clever, and overall merciful to his enemies, at least when they were Romans. I may have to read up on my big cats! And he is rather reptilian - I was thinking perhaps a Komodo Dragon. Snakes in Pullman's verse tend to be associated with guile and influence, which seems to me more like Servilia.

Oh, and I think having a wolf daemon either would be some sort of divine sign or the worst sort of hubris! I think Caesar and Cicero both would have had a wolf daemon, temporarily, before they settled.

The whole daemon concept just raises soooo many possibilities in the context of Rome. Boys wouldn't become men and take on the toga virilis until their daemon settled; future commanders would be set apart right away due to their daemons - and would men respect someone who 'came up through the ranks' if he still had a canine and thus servile daemon? And how would the different philosophical schools deal with daemons? I tried to get into that, a little - the Stoics thought the soul was made of fire and air, and so thus Brutus and Cicero's 'perception' of a soul was tinted with that concept.

If only I could give this much attention to my thesis writing!!