At the age of ten, he became quaestor, celebrating the public games connected with his office in December 393. Memmius was well educated, and studied Greek language; his father approved his style in writing letters and, in 401, he studied with a Gallic rhetor as his tutor. The year 401 marked several important events in Memmius' life: he married the granddaughter of Virius Nicomachus Flavianus;[1][2] he also celebrated the games connected with the second step in his cursus honorum, the office of praetor (these games were postponed from 400 in order to allow Aurelius Symmachus to be present and cost 2000 pounds of gold).
It was probably Memmius who, belonging to a family practicing the old Roman religion, built a temple devoted to Flora in Rome; he is also the author of a dedicatory inscription in honour of his father-in-law Flavianus (CIL, VI, 1782). After his father's death ca. 402, Memmius edited part of his correspondence (which Symmachus himself had likely started to do). [citation needed]
^It was probably in this occasion that the bond between the two aristocratic, pagan families was celebrated with the issue of a diptych, whose valves are entitled one Nicomachorum and the other Symmachorum (Serena Ensoli, Eugenio La Rocca, Aurea Roma. Dalla città pagana alla città cristiana, L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER, 2000, ISBN88-8265-126-6, p. 467).