The whole affair is complicated and the role of Augustine in it is hardly explainable, unless Thiave was a part of the diocese of Hippo (but we know about bishops of Thiave; perhaps they lived later or in another place with the same name?) or Honoratus was originally from Hippo. Anyway, Augustine regrets that Honoratus did not dispose of his property before entering the monastery at Thagaste (was it the clerical community around Alypius, similar to Augustine's in Hippo?), but insists that the whole amount must be given to the Church of Thiave (not half of it, as Alypius was suggesting).