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Symmachus can refer to several different people of Roman antiquity: There was also an aristocratic family in ancient Rome that bore this name. Its most important members were: Other uses: ...[translator] Symmachus (s; Σύμμαχος `ally`; fl. late 2nd century) was the author of one of the Greek versions of the Old Testament. It was included by Origen in his Hexapla and Tetrapla, which compared various versions of the Old Testament side by side with the Septuagint. Some fragments of Symmachus`s version that survive, in what ...
(from the article `biblical literature`) Still another Greek translation was made toward the end of the same century by Symmachus, an otherwise unknown scholar, who made use of his ...
dieda.d.514, pope 498–514.