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Fourth century confessor; Bishop of Milevis in Numidia. A converted rhetorician, he wrote a valuable treatise against the Donatists, in reply to Parmenian of Carthage, c366 Nothing further is known of his life. Relics in the cemetery of Saint Callistus. Feast, June 4,.