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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS<br />

Neujahrsrede des Konsuls Claudius Mamertinus vor dem Kaiser Julian (Basel 1942);<br />

G. Barabino, Claudio Mamenino. I I panegirico dell'Imperatore Giuliano (Genoa 1965).<br />

STUDIES: W. S. Maguinness, ' Some methods of the Latin panegyrists', Hermathena<br />

47 (1932) 42-61; idem, 'Locutions <strong>and</strong> formulae of the Latin panegyrists',<br />

Hermathena 48 (1933) 117-38; E. Vereecke, 'Le corpus des panegyriques latins de<br />

l'epoque tardive. Problemes d'imitation', A.C. 44 (1975) 141—60.<br />

SYMMACHUS, QUINTUS AURELIUS<br />

LIFE<br />

b. c. A.D. 345 of distinguished Roman family; studied rhetoric under tutor from<br />

Bordeaux. Governor of Bruttium 365, Proconsul of Africa 373—374, Praefectus urbi<br />

384-385, consul 391. d. after 402. Sources: full refs. in PLRE I 865-70.<br />

WORKS<br />

Eight speeches, including two panegyrics addressed to Valentinian (369 <strong>and</strong> 370) <strong>and</strong><br />

one to Gratian (369), <strong>and</strong> ten books of letters, written between 364 <strong>and</strong> 402 <strong>and</strong> pubd<br />

after his death; bk 10 (Relationes) comprises official reports sent by S. as Praefectus<br />

urbi to Valentinian II. See Socr. Hist eccl. 5.14; Symm. Epist. tit., 3.11, 5.85, 5.86;<br />

Macrob. 5.1.7; Prudent, c. Symm. 1.632; Sid. Apoll. Epist. 1.1.<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

TEXTS: O. Seeck (Berlin 1883). Letters: J. P. Callu (Bude, 1972). Relationes: R. H.<br />

Barrow (Oxford 1973).<br />

STUDIES: S. Dill, Roman society in the last century of the western empire, 2nd ed.<br />

(London 1910) 143—66; J. A. MacGeachy, Q. Aurelius Symmachus <strong>and</strong> the senatorial<br />

aristocracy of the west (Chicago 1947); D. Romano, Simmaco (Palermo 1955);<br />

F. Paschoud, Roma aeterna. £tudes sur le patriotisme rotnain dans VOccident latin a<br />

Uepoque des gr<strong>and</strong>es invasions (Rome 1967) 71—109; F. Canfora, Simmaco e Ambrogio<br />

(Bari 1970); R. Klein, Symmachus (Darmstadt I97i);idem, Der Streitum den Victoria-<br />

Altar (Darmstadt 1972); J. F. Matthews, 'The letters of Symmachus', in (ed.) J. W.<br />

Binns, Latin literature of the fourth century (London 1974) 58—99; idem, Western<br />

aristocracies <strong>and</strong> imperial court AD 364—425 (Oxford 1975).<br />

927<br />

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