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Pontianus of Spoleto Pontianus ( la, Pontianus, it, Ponziano) (alternatively anglicized as Pontian) was a second century Christian martyr. He was martyred during the reign of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He is honored as a saint and martyr by the Catholic Church, ...

, martyr of the 2nd century and patron saint of that city *

Sicinius Pontianus The gens Sicinia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Members of this gens occur throughout the history of the Republic, but only one of them obtained the consulship, Titus Sicinius Sabinus in 487 BC. Throughout the long Conflict of the Ord ...

, friend of

Apuleius Apuleius (; also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. He lived in the Roman province of Numidia, in the Berber city of Madauros, modern-day ...

Pontianus Africae Pontianus was a sixth-century Christian bishop from an African diocese (not known), and Bishop of Constantinople, who was a figure in the Three-Chapter Controversy. He wrote a critical letter to Emperor Justinian in 544–5, in reply to a reques ...

, 6th-century bishop *

Pontianus of Nicomedia This is a list of the 24 characters (deipnosophists or ''sophists at dinner'') who take part in the banquet described by Athenaeus of Naucratis in the '' Deipnosophistae''. Some of them can be probably identified with great names of the past, but ...

, a character in ''Deipnosophistae'', a 3rd-century work by Athaenaeus

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