 Crispinus was condemned for heresy and was heavily fined, but at the intercession of Possidius the fine was not exacted).In 407, Possidius served, with Augustine and five other bishops, on a committee appointed to adjudicate upon some ecclesiastical matter, the particulars of which are not known.In 408 he nearly lost his life in a riot stirred up by the pagans at Calama (Augustine, "Epp.