Symmachus

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Her sympathy, corruscatingly, compellingly, is with the Roman orator Symmachus: “We see the same stars, the sky is shared by all, the same world surrounds us. What does it matter what wisdom a person uses to seek for the truth?”

From New York Times

On this day in 502, an ecclesiastical proceeding known as Synodis Palmaris resolved a disputed papal election in favor of Pope Symmachus.

From Slate

Julian, it is true, with a rare magnanimity, refused persistently, in his conflict with Christianity, to avail himself, as he might most easily have done, of the popular passion for games which the Church condemned; but Libanius has noticed them with some approbation,61 and Symmachus, as we have already seen, both instituted and applauded them.

From Project Gutenberg

Symmachus was thought to rival Pliny in his letters; and, at the same time, Claudian, the last and not the least of Latin poets, succeeded Lucan in those historical epics so popular at Rome.

From Project Gutenberg

The mosaics of the tribune, representing St. Agnes between Popes Honorius I. and Symmachus, are of the seventh century.

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