Symmachus opened his first book of letters by writing to his father Avianius, whom he depicted as a ‘new Varro’ writing learned epigrams on seven famous men in imitation of Varro's lost work, the Hebdomades. Symmachus was not alone in using Varro's work as an intertext. Based on my study of allusions to Varro and his works by late‐fourth and fifth‐century writers, I argue that Christian polemicists renewed their attacks on the Augustan scholar in the last decades of the fourth century. Consequently, Symmachus' choice of Varro was a forceful response in support of Roman religious as well as literary traditions in the late 380s or early 390s, the period in which I would date the dissemination of the first book of Symmachus' letters and the conceptualization of his seven‐book letter collection.

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SYMMACHUS的VARRO：晚期字母的拉丁字母

Symmachus通过写信给他的父亲Avianius来打开他的第一本书本，他将他描绘成“新的Varro”，模仿了Varro失落的作品《 Hebdomades》，学到了七位名人的名著。Symmachus并不是唯一一个将Varro的作品用作中介的人。根据我对四世纪末和五世纪作家对瓦罗及其作品的典故的研究，我认为基督教辩论家在第四世纪的最后几十年中再次攻击了奥古斯都学者。因此，Symmachus选择Varro是在380年代末或390年代初大力支持罗马宗教和文学传统的回应，在此期间，我将传播第一本Symmachus的书信并将其概念化。他的七本书信集。