Aurelius Anicius Symmachus

Aurelius Anicius Symmachus (fl. 415–420) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire belonging to the Roman families of the Anicii and of the Symmachi. In 415 he was proconsul of Africa and between 24 December 418 and January 420 he was praefectus urbi of Rome.[1]

Biography

He belonged to the Roman families of the Anicii and of the Symmachi; he was probably a relative of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, perhaps the son of a brother or sister who had married a member of Anicii.[1] In 415 he was proconsul of Africa;[2] he obtained, in this capacity, the right to receive appeals.[3]

Between 24 December 418 and January 420 he was praefectus urbi of Rome; in this capacity he wrote to the court regarding issues related to succession to Pope Zosimus, who had died two days after the beginning of Symmachus' office. He also restored a market in Ostia[4] and one of the Roman forums.[5]

Bibliography
  • Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Aurelius Anicius Symmachus 6", The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press, 1971, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, pp. 1043–1044.

Notes
  1. Jones.
  2. During this office he received the law preserved in Codex Theodosianus, xi.30.65a.
  3. CIL VI, 1193
  4. CIL XIV, 4719
  5. CIL VI, 36962
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