 Ptolemy's "Geography" usually mentions the same two towns in the same order, although Stevenson's defective English translation gives "Ruspina" and "Rheuspena".The name "Ruspe", a Greek feminine singular name, also appears in a list of dioceses that the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria saw as dependent on itself at the beginning of the 8th century.Henricus de Noris considered it equivalent to the Latin Ruspa.