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Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus, presumably his son, was prefect of Rome in the year 364, and had also other important posts.
After this Symmachus was involved in the rebellion of Maximus, but obtained his pardon from Theodosius, and appears to have continued in public life up to his death.
In these official writings (reports as prefect of the city), Symmachus is not preoccupied by style and becomes sometimes eloquent; especially so in his remarkable report on the altar of Victory.
Symmachus was the son of a consular family of great distinction and wealth.
Roman senator and patrician and a close friend of the philosopher Boethius, who married Symmachus' daughter Rusticiana and with whom he was executed for treason by the Ostrogoth king Theodoric.
Plea by Symmachus (345-402), the prefect of Rome, for the re-establishment of the traditional religions of the city, which were becoming increasingly restricted in the face of the growing influence of Christianity.
Hadrian was a relative of Trajan, and although Antonius Pius was not related to Hadrian, the conditions of his being made heir included the adoption of Hadrian s young nephew Marcus Aurelius as heir to Pius.
So, in fact, Aurelius choice to make his son his successor was hardly out of place, and it s likely that had any of the previous emperors had available a suitable son as heir they would have taken the same course of action.
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Ambrosius refuses the Roman Empress Justina 's request for a church in Milan where she can worship according to her Arian belief.
QuintusAureliusSymmachus is urban prefect of Rome.
King Chimnyu ascends to the throne of Baekje and shortly thereafter declares Buddhism the official religion.
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This was the Symmachus Award, and was invented by the committee largely as a thank you to Cynthia for all the efforts she has put into promoting pagan religions in the civic arena of Suffolk and elsewhere.
QuintusAureliusSymmachus (340ce - 402ce) was a great scholar and member of the College of Pontiffs, and one of the last Pagan priests of the Roman Empire.
The Symmachus Award is primarily intended for people in Suffolk whom our members feel have strived hard to promote tolerance between Pagan religions and the mainstream ~ not just Christians, but with Buddhists, Hindus, Jews etc as well.
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Arian king Odoacer, the half-Hun, half-Scirian mercenary who in 476 had deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last puppet emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
The young Boethius was introduced to literature and philosophy at a young age, in the house of his family's friend QuintusAurelius Memmius Symmachus.
He married Symmachus's daughter, Rusticiana, and two of their sons would continue the noble family tradition of public service by being made consuls at the same time in 522.
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In 384, he was appointed prefect of Rome; in this capacity, he argued unsuccessfully for the return of the statue of Victory to the Roman senate house.
When Magnus Maximus became emperor in 387, Symmachus represented the senate and offered congratulations to the new ruler.
Fragments of Symmachus' speeches survive in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.
Epistolarum ad diversos libri decem libri X. Philippus Pareus tertium recensuit . . . editio nova. Frankfurt, Johannes ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Letters of QuintusAureliusSymmachus, a 4th century African proconsul and one of the most brilliant representatives in public life and in the literature of 4th century paganism in Rome, and almost the last defender of paganism agaianst the Christian emperors.
Symmachus protested against the removal of the statue and altar of victory from the Senate House by Gratian, and requested Valentian II to restore them.
This is a new edition by Pareus which claims to have the first appearance of several letters, and which also contains Electa Symmachiana a schoolbook compiled by Pareus of selections from Symmachus' work arranged under a series of various headings.
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The vision of Aulus Hirtius, the Villa Symmaccha is part residence, part research facility/museum and part shrine.
The residence is for the use of founder Caius Julius Caesar Ahenobarbus, the research areas are for Roman religion and the shrine is to QuintusAureliusSymmachus.
E. ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS, of the famous Praenestine family of the Anicii, was born about 480 A.D. in Rome.
His father was an ex-consul; he himself was consul under Theodoric the Ostrogoth in 510, and his two sons, children of a great granddaughter of the renowned Q. AureliusSymmachus, were joint consuls in 522.
His public career was splendid and honourable, as befitted a man of his race, attainments, and character.