Aper (also known as Lucius Flavius Aper and Arrius Aper, date of birth unknown -284) was a Roman citizen of the third century AD. First known to history...
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The praetorian prefect (Latin: praefectus praetorio; Greek: ἔπαρχος/ὕπαρχος τῶν πραιτωρίων) was a high office in the Roman Empire. Originating as the commander...
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appointment by Augustus in 2 BC of two Praetorian prefects, Quintus Ostorius Scapula and Publius Salvius Aper, although organization and command were...
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Septimius Severus Aper (ca. 175–211/212), Roman consul Lucius Flavius Aper (d. 284), Roman soldier, acting governor and Praetorian prefect Aprus of Toul (d...
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family known to have held public office at Rome was Publius Salvius Aper, praetorian prefect in 2 BC. About this time, the Salvii achieved equestrian rank,...
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Lucius Flavius Aper, praeses of Pannonia Inferior in the second half of the 3rd century. He may be identified with Aper, praetorian prefect and father-in-law...
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Numerian (category Roman emperors murdered by the Praetorian Guard)
Carinus in charge of the West and moved with Numerian and his praetorian prefect Arrius Aper to the East to wage war against the Sassanid Empire. The Sassanids...
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Lucius Seius Strabo (category 1st-century praetorian prefects)
Lucius Seius Strabo (46 BC – after 16 AD) was a prefect of the Roman imperial bodyguard, known as the Praetorian Guard, during the rule of the emperors Augustus...
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Commodus (category Roman emperors murdered by the Praetorian Guard)
entrusted the management of affairs to his palace chamberlain and praetorian prefects, namely Saoterus, Perennis and Cleander. Commodus was assassinated...
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philosopher. Lucius Arrius Flavius Aper, praetorian prefect, and father-in-law of the emperor Numerian, whom Aper secretly murdered as the army was retreating...
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the Praetorian guard announced that the throne was to be sold to the man who would pay the highest price. Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, prefect of...
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sun, he was carried on a covered litter on the march. Arrius Aper, the praetorian prefect, took charge in his name, but his ambitious temper aroused the...
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claims that the praetorian prefect (and rival for the throne) Arrius Aper murdered Numerian, and he personally stabs and kills the prefect on the spot. The...
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Pertinax (category Roman emperors murdered by the Praetorian Guard)
180s, Pertinax took a pivotal role in the Roman Senate until the praetorian prefect Sextus Tigidius Perennis forced him out of public life. He was recalled...
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Emperors Lucius Flavius Aper (died 284 AD), also known as Arrius Aper, a professional soldier who rose to become the Praetorian prefect Quintus Arrius, a fictional...
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John the Cappadocian (category Praetorian prefects of the East)
Cappadocian (Greek: Ἰωάννης ὁ Καππαδόκης) (fl. 530s, living 548) was a praetorian prefect of the East (532–541) in the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian...
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List of governors of Roman Egypt (redirect from Augustal prefect)
post would fall second to that of the praetorian command, but its position remained highly prestigious. A prefect of Egypt usually held the office for...
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AD as commander of this body, challenging the Praetorian Prefect Aper whose power-base was the Praetorian Guard. However, membership of the corps still...
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Lucius or Gaius Septimius Severus Aper, a native of Leptis Magna, and probably the grandson of Publius Septimius Aper, consul in AD 153, was consul in...
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younger sister, Septimia Octavilla. Severus' maternal cousin was the praetorian prefect and consul Gaius Fulvius Plautianus. Septimius Severus grew up in...
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assassination. In an attempt to appease the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard, Nerva had dismissed their prefect Titus Petronius Secundus – one of the chief conspirators...
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Elagabalus (category Roman emperors murdered by the Praetorian Guard)
jurist Ulpian was exiled. Elagabalus made Comazon praetorian prefect, and later consul (220) and prefect of the city (three times, 220–222), which Dio regarded...
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Pupienus (category Roman emperors murdered by the Praetorian Guard)
began to argue just as the Praetorians burst into the room. Both emperors were seized and dragged back to the Praetorian barracks where they were tortured...
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claims that the praetorian prefect (and rival for the throne) Arrius Aper murdered Numerian, and he personally stabs and kills the prefect on the spot. The...
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Philip the Arab (category 3rd-century praetorian prefects)
After the death of Gordian III in February 244, Philip, who had been Praetorian prefect, achieved power. He quickly negotiated peace with the Persian Sassanid...
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a priest in 510, only to be recalled by Justin I in 518 and made praetorian prefect of the East. Sometime between 525 and 532, he was converted with his...
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asserted that Aper had killed Numerian and concealed it. In full view of the army, Diocles drew his sword and killed Aper. Soon after Aper's death, Diocles...
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September 208, named Marcus Opellius Diadumenianus, to Macrinus, the praetorian prefect and future emperor of Berber origin. The unreliable Historia Augusta...
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Gordian III (category Roman emperors murdered by the Praetorian Guard)
Tranquillina, daughter of the newly appointed praetorian prefect, Timesitheus. As chief of the Praetorian Guard and father in law of the Emperor, Timesitheus...
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travelling to the region accompanied by a large force commanded by his praetorian prefect Cornelius Fuscus. Fuscus successfully drove the Dacians back across...
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