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Pontius of Carthage
Pontius, or Pontius the Deacon, (died in the mid-third century) was a Christian saint and Latin author from Carthage. He served as a deacon under Cyprian of Carthage and wrote the ''Vita Cypriani'' ("Life of Cyprian") shortly after Cyprian's death.
==Life==
There is only one surviving account of Pontius, a brief mention in Jerome's ''De viris illustribus'' ("On famous men") 68:
Although the author is not identified in the transmitted ''Life of Cyprian'', Jerome is clearly writing of this work.〔Harnack (1913) 2; Mohrmann (1975) xii.〕 The only other information comes from the author's own statements: he writes in part from what he himself witnessed or heard from older people;〔Pont. 2, 2 ''si quibus eius interfui, si qua de antiquioribus comperi, dicam'' ("I shall tell whatever I witnessed of his, whatever I have learned from my elders").〕 he accompanied Cyprian into exile at Curubis, modern Korba.〔Pont. 12, 3 ''et me inter domesticos comites dignatio caritatis eius elegerat exulem voluntarium'' ("The judgement of his kindness had chosen me to as a voluntary exile among the companions of his house").〕 From the preface, it appears that Pontius was not aware of any other account of Cyprian's martyrdom at the time he wrote.〔Pont. 1, 2.〕
Beyond this little is certain. Allusions and forensic style indicate that Pontius must have been well educated, with knowledge both of the Bible and of secular rhetoric.〔Harnack (1913), 43-50.〕 Hermann Dessau noted the coincidence of an inscription in the little town of Curubis to a local magistrate with the name Pontius and suggested that the praise of the town in the work and the author's desire to associate the town with Cyprian's martyrdom may reflect local patriotism.〔Dessau (1916) and (1918).〕 Other scholars either reject this or regard it as unprovable.〔Mohrmann (1975) xiii; Schmidt (1997) 434 "weder verifizierbar noch auch falsifizierbar" ("neither verifiable nor falsifiable").〕
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