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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.
Symmachus (; "ally"; fl. late 2nd century) translated the Old Testament into Greek. His translation was included by Origen in his Hexapla and Tetrapla, which compared various versions of the Old Testament side by side with the Septuagint. Some fragments of Symmachus's version that survive, in what remains of the Hexapla, inspire scholars to remark on the purity and idiomatic elegance of Symmachus' Greek. He was admired by Jerome, who used his work in composing the Vulgate.
Flavius Symmachus (fl. 522–526) was a Roman politician during the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy.
Son of the philosopher Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius and of Rusticiana (his aunts were Galla and Proba ) he was the brother of Boethius, with whom he shared the consulate, chosen by the Ostrogothic court.
His father fell into disgrace with the Ostrogothic ruler and had his own property confiscated; at the death of king Theodoric the Great (526), these properties were given back to Boethius and Symmachus.