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Symmachus

Page history last edited by PBworks 17 years, 7 months ago

Everything is full of gods. Whatever men worship, it may fairly be called one and the same. We all look up to the same stars; the same heaven is above us all; the same universe surrounds every one of us. What does it matter by what system of knowledge each one of us seeks the truth? It is not by one single path that we attain to so great a secret. Quintus Aurelius Symmachus

 

Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (A.D. c. 340–402) was a Roman senator. Letter, written 384, to the Christian Emperor Valentinian II,

pleading for the continuation of Pagan ceremonies. In RM Ogilvie (1969), The Romans and their gods.

 

He also pleaded for the restoration of the Altar of Victory in Rome, and was banished for this by the emperor Gratian.

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