| LC control no. | n 98087398 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius, approximately 340-402. Correspondence |
| Variant(s) | Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius, approximately 340-402. Epistulae Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius, approximately 340-402. Symmachi epistulae Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius, ca. 340-402. Correspondence |
| See also | Contained in (work): Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius, approximately 340-402. Works Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius, approximately 340-402. Relationes |
| Biography/History note | Letters written between 364 or 365 and Symmachus's death in 402. |
| Form of work | Letters Correspondence Government correspondence |
| Beginning date | 0375 [0364,0365] |
| Ending date | 0402 |
| Place of origin | Rome |
| Found in | Marcone, A. Commento storico al libro VI dell'Epistolario di Q. Aurelio Simmaco, c1983: t.p. (Epistolario) p. [161] (Epistulae) Commento storico al libro III dell'Epistolato di Q. Aurelio Simmaco, c1998: p. 247 (Symmachi epistulae) Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius. Symmaque, 1972-2009: t. 1, t.p. (Lettres (Livres I-II); texte établi, traduit et commenté par Jean Pierre Callu) t. 1, p. 16, etc. (three series of works of Symmachus have come down to us: speeches (orationes), reports (relationes), and correspondence; 10 books of correspondence, with at least 902 letters, a posthumous publication prepared by the author only through Book 7; the edition of Memmius saw the light before 409; some editors (Seeck, Stout, Cameron) think that the 10th book should include the relationes; Callu thinks that the public of the 5th century read the works of Symmachus in a collection of at least 12 volumes, with the relationes separate from the letters) t. 2, p. 92, t. 3, p. 48, etc. (letters dated 402) t. 4, p. vii (3 letters from the 360s, in books II and IX (the earliest, Book II, Letter 44, in 364 or 365); two-thirds of Book I and letters in other books date during the 370s) t. 4, p. ix-x (in books IV-IX, the majority of datable letters date after 395) Brill's New Pauly online, 3 August 2015: Symmachus: Q. Aurelius S. Eusebius (in the nine volumes of letters compiled towards the end of his life, there are more than 900 letters to friends; the original arrangement according to addressees without regard to the time of writing may, in the last two books, have been abandoned in favour of chronological order; Book 10 comprises official documents, two letters from the emperor and the 49 relationes (petitions) which, as a prefect of the city, he presented to the emperor) Oxford classical dictionary, 2005, viewed online 3 August 2015: Symmachus (2), Quintus Aurelius (the letters of Symmachus were edited by his son Q. Fabius Memmius Symmachus, who arranged them after the manner of the younger Pliny, in nine books of private letters, the tenth being composed of letters addressed to the emperor; these include the 49 relationes addressed to Valentinian II during Symmachus' tenure of the prefecture of Rome (383-4); 130 known correspondents (others are anonymous)) |
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