SITIFENSIS 319 non. Dec. For a church dedicated to the martyr Crispina, see Gui, 311-16. Yvette Duval, UJca, 123-29. Optatus, 2.18, records a Donatist Counci1 there in the mid-Fourth Century. Mesnage, 379. Saxer, 450. Lepelley, 2: 185-89. Atlas, 4. Ta1bert, map 33. Thubunae. (modern .) Bishop Nemesianus was at the Counci1 of in 256; see Sent. Episcop. 87.5. He is mentioned in Cyprian, Epistulae, 62, 72, 76, & 77. Nemesianus was martyred under Va1erian; see Kalendarium Carthaginense, 10 kaI. Jan. Mesnage, 388. Atlas, 4. Ta1bert, map 34. Tigisi(s) Nutnid. (modern Ain el-Bordj.) Optatus, 1: 14 & 19, and Augustine Contra Cresconium, 3.26.27 & 3.29.30, mention Bishop Secundus ca.305 as one of the accusers of Caeci1ian of Carthage. See also Augustine, Epistulae, 43.2; 43.5; 43.14; 53.4; 58.3; and 88.3. Also Augustine, Contra epistulam Parmeniani, l.3.5. Mesnage, 267-68. Atlas, 4. Ta1bert, map 3l.

Possible sites Astora? (modern Stora; not far from Rusic(c)ade.) See the undated inscription of one Marinian, possib1y dating to the Third Century; CIL, 8:819l. Monceaux, 2:125. Mesnage, 373. Saxer, 22 & 450. Akakpo, map at end. Ta1bert, map 3l. Diana Veteranorum.? (modern Zana.) Cyprian, Epistulae, 34.1, makes mention of a certain presbyter "Gaio Didensii" and his dea• con. Harnack, 908, suggests that Gaius may have been from Diana Veteranorum. Compare Mesnage, 394. Pauly-Wissowa, 5:339. Talbert, map 34. Tham.allae? (Thamallu1a; modern Tocqueville/Ras el-Oued.) CIL, 8:20587 (=ILCV, #4156c) is a possib1y Christian inscription from ca.240. Pau1y-Wisssowa, H, 9:123l. Yvette Duva1, UJca, 339-4l. Compare Ta1bert, map 31.

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General Mauretania Sitifensis. Tertullian, Adversus Iudaeos, 7.8, mentions Christians in Mauretania generally. Origen, Homilies on Ezekiel, 4.1, mentions the presence of Christianity among the Mauri. Until the era of Diocletian, Mauretania Sitifensis was part of the larger province of Mauretania Caesarea, but the cities are listed separately here. No sees in the Sent. Episcop. 87 can be localized in Mauretania Sitifensis or Caesariensis; see Fevrier, "Aux origines," 796.

Specific sites Novaricia. (modern Beni Fouda; South of Satafi.) Bishop Jubaianus mentioned by Cyprian, Epistulae, 73, might be from here if the ref• erence to Jubianus in Augustine, De baptismo contra Donatistas, 11.16, could be read as "Novaliciensis;" see Harnack, 914~15. Fevrier, "Aux origines," 796, doubts the reference, and indeed the text at that point reads "Novatianenses." Mesnage, 369. CIL, 8: 10930 = 20478 from 324 reads in part "mensa etema Ianuarii, v(ixit) a(nnis) LXXV . .. d.m.s. etema . .. a.p. CCLXXV." Here the "d.m.s." coupled with the "etema" seems to indicate a Christian presence. See