Aurelius Anicius Symmachus

Anicius Aurelius Symmachus (fl. 415-420) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire.

Biography

He belonged to the Roman families of the Anicii and of the Symmachi; he was probably a relative of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, perhaps the son of a brother or sister who had married a member of Anicii.[1] In 415 he was proconsul of Africa;[2] he obtained, in this capacity, the right to receive appeals.[3]

Between 24 December 418 and January 420 he was praefectus urbi of Rome; in this capacity he wrote to the court regarding issues related to succession to Pope Zosimus, who had died two days after the beginning of Symmachus' office. He also restored a market in Ostia[4] and one of the Roman forums.[5]

Bibliography

  • Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Aurelius Anicius Symmachus 6", The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 1971, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, pp. 1043–1044.

Notes

  1. ↑ Jones.
  2. ↑ During this office he received the law preserved in Codex Theodosianus, xi.30.65a.
  3. ↑ CIL VI, 1193
  4. ↑ CIL XIV, 4719
  5. ↑ CIL VI, 36962


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