* Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, Roman politician

* Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus, son of the previous

* Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, consul in 485

However, his father died when Boethius was young, and he was adopted by another patrician, Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus.

Memmius Symmachus raised him and instilled in him a love for literature and philosophy.

Both Memmius Symmachus and Boethius were fluent in Greek, an increasingly rare skill at the time in the Western Empire, which has led some scholars to think that Boethius was educated in the East.

* Quintus Fabius Memmius Symmachus, his son, who edited Aurelius ' letters for publication

* Quintus Fabius Q. f. L. n. Memmius Symmachus, praefectus urbi in AD 418.

* Quintus Aurelius Q. f. ( Q. n .) Memmius Symmachus, consul in AD 485, praefectus urbi.

Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus ( died 526 ) was a Roman aristocrat and a historian of the 6th century.

Prominent during his lifetime for as a patron of secular learning, consul for the year 485, and for his support of Pope Symmachus in the schism over his election, Memmius Symmachus was executed with his son-in-law Boethius after being charged with treason.

Memmius Symmachus civil offices included being appointed sole consul for 485, the third known member of his family to hold this office.

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They had at least one son, Gaius Memmius, suffect consul in 34 BC.

In his absence Pompey had shamefully usurped control over Sulla's children, contrary to the father's testament, and now in Pompeius ' absence the latter's intimate and hereditary political ally Gaius Memmius co-ordinated the opposition to Lucullus ' just claim to a triumph.

While attempting to stand for consul in 99 BC, he was engaged in an exchange between himself and another candidate Gaius Memmius who attempted to prevent his candidature on the grounds that he had not waited the mandatory two years between election as praetor and election to the consulship, as stipulated by the " Lex Villia Annalis ".

She also had a daughter called Aemilia Paulla born in 22 BC who married Publius Memmius Regulus.

Lucretius refers to Memmius by name four times in the first book, three times in the second, five in the fifth, and not at all in the third, fourth, or sixth books.

In response, the Emperor sent three envoys to negotiate with Attila: Gennadius Avienus, one of the consuls of 450, Memmius Aemilius Trygetius, the former urban prefect, and Leo.

Memmius delivered at least four speeches de triumpho Luculli Asiatico, and the antagonism towards Lucullus aroused by the Pompeians proved so effective that the enabling law ( lex curiata ) required to hold a triumph was delayed for three years.

Gaius Memmius ( died December 100 BC ) was a tribune of the plebs in 111 BC and attacked certain aristocrats on a charge of corrupt relations with Jugurtha.

Very little is known about Lucretius's life ; the only certain fact is that he was either a friend or client of Gaius Memmius, to whom De Rerum Natura was addressed and dedicated.

Marcus Antonius Orator was elected without opposition ; the other Optimate candidate, Gaius Memmius, who seemed to have the better chance of success, was beaten to death by the hired agents of Saturninus and Glaucia, while the voting was actually going on.

Fabius Dorsennus and a " Memmius " were also authors of these comedies ; Ovid and Pliny the Younger found the work of Memmius to be indecent.

Milo became praetor in 54 BC, and in that year married Cornelia Fausta, daughter of the dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla and ex-wife of Gaius Memmius.

Gaius Memmius was married to Cornelia Fausta, the daughter of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.

He spent the provincial command year summer 57 to summer 56 BC in Bithynia on the staff of the commander Gaius Memmius.

A rival candidate, Gaius Memmius, is found murdered by agents of Saturninus, who is declared a public enemy by the Senate.

In relation to this discrepancy in the frequency of Lucretius ' reference to the apparent subject of his poem, Kannengiesse advances the theory that Lucretius wrote the first version of De rerum natura for the reader at large, and subsequently revised in order to write it for Memmius.

However, Memmius ' name is central to several critical verses in the poem, and this theory has therefore been largely discredited.

Bruns and Brandt have set forth an alternative theory that Lucretius did at first write the poem with Memmius in mind, but that his enthusiasm for his patron cooled.

Stearns suggests that this is because Memmius reneged on a promise to pay for a new school to be built on the site of the old Epicurean school.

Memmius was also a tribune in 66, praetor in 58, governor of Bithynia in 57, and was a candidate for the consulship in 54 but was disqualified for bribery, and Stearns suggests that the warm relationship between patron and client may have cooled.

* Gaius Memmius Roman politician killed by a rival.

It was only after this, according to Appian, that Octavius slinked away unnoticed and was replaced as tribune by Quintus Memmius.

The local Roman commander was summoned to Rome to face corruption charges brought by his political rival Gaius Memmius.

In 241 CE, a priest named Poplius Memmius Leon organized the Naia festival of Dodona.

The local Roman commander was summoned to Rome to face corruption charges brought by his political rival Gaius Memmius, who also induced the tribal assembly to vote safe conduct to Jugurtha to come to Rome to give evidence against the officials suspected of succumbing to bribery.

The plebeian aedile Gaius Memmius is credited with staging the first of these ludi scaenici.

Gaius Memmius ( incorrectly called Gemellus, " The Twin "), Roman orator and poet, tribune of the people ( 66 BC ), patron of Lucretius and acquaintance of Catullus.

Lucretius wrote this epic poem to " Memmius ", who may be the Gaius Memmius who in 58 BC was a praetor, a judicial official deciding controversies between citizens and the government.