Africanus, in Latin, means "of Africa". It can refer to: Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ...
many plants and animals the second part of whose binomial name is "africanus"
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Sextus JuliusAfricanus, a Christian traveller and historian of the 3rd century, was probably born in Libya, and may have served under Septimius Severus against the Osrhoenians in AD 195.
Little is known of his personal history, except that he lived at Emmaus, and that he went on an embassy to the emperor Elagabalus to ask for the restoration of the town, which had fallen into ruins.
Neander suggests that it was written by Africanus before he had devoted himself to religious subjects.
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