Symmachus

Symmachus can refer to several different people of Roman antiquity:

• Symmachus the Ebionite (late 2nd century), author of one of the Greek versions of the Old Testament;
• Symmachus (consul 522), son of Boethius
• Pope Symmachus, bishop of Rome 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, consul in 330
• Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus, praefectus urbi in 364–365
• Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, c. 340–c. 402, orator, author, and politician, the most influential of the Symmachi
• Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus, son of the previous
• Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, consul in 446
• Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus (died 526), consul in 485 and wrote a history of Rome

Other uses:

• Symmachus ben Joseph, a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth generation.