6. Q.AureliusMemmiusSymmachus, who was a Christian and the father-in-law of Boethius.

(For full information regarding the life and writings of Symmachus, of his ancestors and of his descendants, see the " Commentarii Praevii de Symmacho" by Mai, in the first volume of the " Scriptorum Veterum Nova Collectio" noticed above. In this dissertation references will be found to all those passages in the ancient writers which bear upon the subject.)