In a letter to Secundus, Bishop of Tigisis, then the senior bishop of Numidia, he explains that he had himself had taken the texts from the church to his own house, and had substituted them for a number of heretical writings, which the authorities had seized without asking for more.
To Secundus, the Bishop of Tigisis, who was then the senior bishop of Numidia, Augustine described in a missive how he relocated the texts from the church to his home and replaced them with numerous heretical writings that were seized by authorities without further inquiry.