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  Symmachus can refer to several different people of Roman antiquity
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
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  • Symmachus the Ebionite
    Symmachus the Ebionite

    Symmachus the Ebionite was the author of one of the Greek versions of the Old Testament. It was included by Origen in his Hexapla and Tetrapla, which compared various versions of the Old Testament side by side with the Septuagint....
     (late 2nd century), was the author of one of the Greek versions of the Old Testament;
  • Pope Symmachus
    Pope Symmachus

    Pope Saint Symmachus was pope from 498 to 514.He was born on Sardinia, the son of Fortunatus. He was baptized in Rome, where he became archdeacon of the Church under Pope Anastasius II....
    , pope from 498 to 514.


There was also an aristocratic family in ancient Rome that bore this name. Its most important members were:

  • Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus
    Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus

    Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus Phosphorius was a politician of the Roman Empire, member of the Symmachi.He was born around 280; he had a son, Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus, whose son was the famous orator Quintus Aurelius Symmachus....
    , consul in 330
  • Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus
    Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus

    Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus signo Phosphorius was a politician of the Roman Empire, father of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus....
    , praefectus urbi in 364-365
  • Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
    Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

    Quintus Aurelius Symmachus , the cultured and prominent son of a prominent father, Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus, in the patrician gens Aurelia, held the offices of proconsul of Africa in 373, urban prefect of Rome in 384 and 385, and consul in 391....
    , c.340–c.402, orator and politician, the most influential of the Symmachi
  • Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus
    Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus

    Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus was a politician of the Roman empire, member of the influential family of the Symmachi....
    , son of the previous
  • Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
    Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (consul 446)

    Quintus Aurelius Symmachus was a politician and a senator of the Western Roman Empire, belonging to the Symmachi family....
    , consul in 446
  • Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus
    Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus

    Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus was a Roman politician and a historian of the 6th century....
    , consul in 485