Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (k. 345 – 402) adalah seorang negarawan, orator dan man of letters asal Romawi. Ia memegang jabatan gubernur prokonsuler Afrika pada 373, prefek urban Roma pada 384 dan 385, dan konsul pada 391.

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Bacaan tambahan 
 Q. Aurelii Symmachi quae supersunt, ed. by Otto Seeck (Berlin, 1883; reprinted Munich, 2001), . All surviving writings of Symmachus: letters, speeches and official reports, in the original Latin. This volume is Volume 6 of the series Monumenta Germaniae Historica. The letters are also published in a supplementary volume XIII in the Patrologia Latina. More recently, Symmaque: Lettres, ed. by Jean-Pierre Callu in four volumes (Paris, 1972–2002) published by Les Belles Lettres contains the letters of Symmachus in Latin with facing-page French translation. This has the fullest text and translation.
 Richard Klein: Symmachus. Eine tragische Gestalt des ausgehenden Heidentums. Darmstadt (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft [Impulse der Forschung, Band 2]) 1971, .
 Richard Klein: Der Streit um den Victoriaaltar. Darmstadt (WBG [Texte zur Forschung Band 7]) 1972, .
 J.F. Matthews, "The Letters of Symmachus" in Latin Literature of the Fourth Century (edited by J.W. Binns), pp. 58–99. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974, discusses them.
 J.F. Matthews, Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court, AD 364-425. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 
 Cristiana Sogno, Q. Aurelius Symmachus: A Political Biography. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.

Pranala luar 

 Symmachus's letter on behalf the Senate, petitioning the three emperors, at Medieval Sourcebook
 Ambrose, Epistle xvii and xviii 
 Encyclopædia Britannica 1911: "Symmachus (Family)"
 Relatio III of Symmachus 
 Libri Decem Epistolarum [10 Books of Letters] 

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