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Tertullian
Tertullian (; ; 155 – 220 AD) was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. He was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature and was an early Christian apologist and a polemicist against heresy, including Gnosticism.
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Cyprian
Cyprian (; ; to 14 September 258 AD) was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches.
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Lactantius
Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius () was an early Christian author who became an advisor to Roman emperor Constantine I, guiding his Christian religious policy in its initial stages of emergence, and a tutor to his son Crispus. His most important work is the Institutiones Divinae ("The Divine Institutes"), an apologetic treatise intended to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity to pagan critics.
Novatian
Novatian (Greek: , , ) was a scholar, priest, and theologian. He is considered by the Catholic Church to have been an antipope between 251 and 258. Some Greek authors give his name as Novatus, who was an African presbyter.
Arnobius
Arnobius (died c. 330) was an early Christian apologist of Berber origin during the reign of Diocletian (284–305).
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Marcus Minucius Felix
Latin-language writer
Gaius Julius Solinus
3rd or 4th century Roman geographer and grammarian
Victorinus of Pettau
3rd century Christian ecclesiastical writer
Commodian
Commodian (Commodianus) was a Christian Latin poet, who flourished about AD 250.
Nemesianus
Marcus Aurelius Nemesianus was a Roman poet thought to have been a native of Carthage and flourished about AD 283. He was a popular poet at the court of the Roman emperor Carus (Historia Augusta, Carus, 11).
Marius Maximus
Roman consul and historian (c.160 – c.230)
Serenus Sammonicus
2nd-century Roman poet
Pomponius Porphyrion
3rd-century Latin grammarian
Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius
4th-century Roman poet
Quintus Gargilius Martialis
Roman writer
Pontius of Carthage
3rd century Carthaginian Latin author and Christian saint
Helenius Acron
Roman grammarian
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Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius
ancient Roman writer, translator, soldier and politician from the 4th century
Marius Plotius Sacerdos
3rd-century Roman grammarian
Aquila Romanus
Roman Latin grammarian
Sulpicius Lupercus Servastus
Latin poet
Cornelius Labeo
3rd century Roman theologian and antiquarian