Nicomachus Flavianus

[5] Alternatively, it may have been produced on the occasion of the wedding of Galla, daughter of Nicomachus Flavianus and his unnamed wife, with the son of Symmachus.

[4] As was traditional for his family, he was patron of Naples;[6] and, sharing a common interest in his family, he edited works of pagan authors of the Roman literature: in particular, around 408 he produced a corrected edition of the first ten books of the Ab Urbe condita of Livy,[7] while he was staying near Enna (he had estates in Sicily).

[8] His edition had been corrected by Victorinus before him, then bought by Symmachus, and finally, after Flavianus' edition, emended another time by his nephew Appius Nicomachus Dexter; all of the manuscripts of the first ten books of Livy's Ab Urbe condita that were subsequently copied through the Middle Ages into modern times are derived by this single manuscript, thanks to whom those books have survived.

His father delayed his departure for his province;[10] in this office he was the addressee of some laws later included in the Codex Theodosianus,[11] while Himerius dedicated in his honour three orations.

[14] He received several letters from his father-in-law Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, a close and influential friend of his father, to suggest him to take part to the senatorial delegation to the emperor (397), in order to rehabilitate himself, but it is probable he did not follow Symmachus' suggestions.

Symmachi–Nicomachi diptych ; the left leaf is at the Musée National du Moyen Âge , Paris, the right leaf is at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.