SYMMACHUS

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SYMMACHUS , the name of a celebrated

Roman

ROMAN

family

FAMILY

of the 4th to 6th centuries of our era. It belonged to the gens

Aurelia

AURELIA, VIA

and can be traced back to Aurelius Julianus Symmachus, proconsul of

Achaea

ACHAEA

(according to others,

vicar

VICAR (Lat. vicarius, substitute)

vice

VICE

-prefect of

Macedonia

MACEDONIA

) in the year 319.

Lucius

LUCIUS

Aurelius Avianius Symmachus, presumably his son, was prefect of Rome in the year 364, and had also other important posts. He was celebrated for his virtues and the

senate

root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
_s.html">SENATE (Lat. senatus, from
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

awarded him in 377 a gilded statue.

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