Flavius Symmachus (fl. 522–526) was a Roman politician during the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy.
Son of the philosopher Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius[1] and of Rusticiana (his aunts were Galla and Proba), he was the brother of Boethius, with whom he shared the consulate,[2] chosen by the Ostrogothic court.
His father fell into disgrace with the Ostrogothic ruler and had his own property confiscated; at the death of king Theodoric the Great (526), these properties were given back to Boethius and Symmachus.[3]
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^Boethius does not mention the name of his sons in his Consolatio Philosophiae, but in II.3.8, 4.7 he mentions their joint consulate.
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