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- ↑ Vageatensis
- ↑ Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010) p205.
- ↑ Jesper Carlsen, Vilici and Roman Estate Managers Until AD 284, Part 284 (L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER, 1995) p81-82.
- ↑ Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010)p205.
- ↑ Epigraphic Text Database.
- ↑ Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine. (Cambridge University Press, 2011) page xvi.
- ↑ Saints Zeno and Optatus, the first at Verona, the works of all the bishops of the other Milevi: Cui accessit - The history of the Donatists, the Bishops of Africa, together with the tombs that belong to it and geography (Vrayet, 1845).
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- ↑ Antoine-Augustin Bruzen from La Martinière , THE GREAT GEOGRAPHIC AND CRITICAL DICTIONARY, Volume 9 (1739).
- ↑ Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 204, Necrology
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