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a Carthaginian (Cyprian, Ep. 41) who joined against Cyprian in the faction of Felicissimus. In Epistle 42 he is excommunicated by bishop Caldonius, along with Repostus, Irene, Paulus, Sophronius, and Soliassus. Possibly the same Augendus (id. Ep. 44) reappears as a deacon of Novatians sent to Carthage with the presbyter Maximus. In this case-he would, after his excommunication, accompany Novatus. to Rome and join Novatian, and return, as Novattus did, to push the Novatianist cause against Cyprian.