1) Given name 
Saint Optatus, sometimes anglicized as St. Optate, was Bishop of Milevis, in Numidia, in the fourth century, remembered for his writings against Donatism. ==Biography and context== Optatus was a convert, as we gather from St. Augustine: `Do we not see with how great a booty of gold and silver and garments Cyprian, doctor suavissimus, came forth o....