in the massinger and fletcher play "the false one" (c.1620), septimius is the central character, the "false one" of the title. he also appears in pierre corneille's "la mort de pompée" (1643). in 1910, john masefield treated pompey and septimius in his "the tragedy of pompey the great". he also appears in the george bernard shaw play "caesar and cleopatra" (1898), and the hbo television series "rome" (depicted in the episodes "pharsalus" and "caesarion"). in shaw's play caesar forgives him, in "rome" caesar orders his execution.