title: Symmachus
text: # Symmachus
  
  Symmachus is a name from Roman antiquity. It may refer to:
  
  * Symmachus (translator) (late 2nd century), author of one of the Greek versions of the Old Testament
  * Symmachus ben Joseph, a Jewish Tanna sage of the fifth generation
  * Symmachus (consul 522), son of Boethius
  * Pope Symmachus, bishop of Rome from 498 to 514
  * Symmachi, a Roman aristocratic family
     * 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 (383/384 – after 402), praetor
     * Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, consul in 446
     * Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus (died 526), consul in 485 and wrote a history of Rome
  