A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

bishop of Milevi in Numidia, and hence distinguished by the epithet Milevitanus, flourished under the emperors Valentinian and Valens, and must have been alive at least as late as A. D. 384, if the passage (2.3) be genuine in which mention is made of pope Siricius, who in that year succeeded Damasus in the Roman see. Of his personal history we know nothing except that he was by birth a gentile, and that he is classed by St. Augustine with Cyprian, Lactantius, Victorinus, and Hilarius, as one who came forth from Egypt (i.e. from the bondage of paganism) laden with the treasures of learning and eloquence.

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