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;
- Pope Symmachus, 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, 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, consul in 485
Other uses:
- Symmachus ben Joseph, a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth generation.