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RUSPE

RUSPE (Peut. Tab.; Ῥοῦσπαι al. Ῥοῦσπε, Ptol. 4.3.10), a. town of Numidia between Acholla and Usilla, near the CAPUT VADORUM (Corippus, Johann. 1.366: C. K‘abûdîah), and the see of Fulgentius, well-known in the Pelagian controversy; he was expelled from it by the Vandal Thrasimund. Barth (Wanderungen, p. 177) found remains at Schebba.

[E.B.J]

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    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 4.3
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