Gaius Septimius Severus Aper (c. 175211/212) was a Roman aristocrat.

Life

He was appointed

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in 207 with the otherwise unknown

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. Aper came from

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and was probably a paternal grandson of the consul suffectus of July 153, Publius Septimius Aper. Aper is possibly the same person called ''Afer'' in the ''

Historia Augusta The ''Historia Augusta'' (English: ''Augustan History'') is a late Roman collection of biographies, written in Latin, of the Roman emperors, their junior colleagues, designated heirs and usurpers from 117 to 284. Supposedly modeled on the sim ...

'', who at the end of the year 211 or 212 was executed by the command of the emperor Caracalla.

Severan dynasty family tree

References

* ''Historia Augusta'', "Caracalla", 3.6–7 * '' Prosopographia Imperii Romani'' (PIR) ² S 489 Severan dynasty Septimii Imperial Roman consuls 2nd-century Romans 3rd-century Romans 2nd-century Punic people 3rd-century Punic people 170s births 210s deaths Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain {{AncientRome-politician-stub