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Symmachus is a name from Roman antiquity. It may refer to:
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- ↑ Aurelius Memmius Symmachus v.c. emendabam vel distinguebam meum Ravennae cum Macrobio Plotino Euexodio, «I, Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, vir clarissimus , corrected and put punctuation to my copy in Ravenna together with Macrobius Plotinus Eudoxius, vir clarissimus» (Hedrick, Charles W., History and Silence, University of Texas Press, 2000, ISBN 0-292-73121-3, p. 183).