{{short description|Roman politician}} {{other uses|Syagrius (disambiguation)}} {{Lead too short|date=October 2021}} '''Afranius Syagrius'''{{efn-lr|His name appears in some inscriptions as Flavius Syagrius,{{sfn|''PLRE'' 1|p=862}} in which the 'Flavius' functions as an honorific rather than part of his actual name.{{sfn|''CLRE''|pp=36–40, 298–299}} }} ({{fl.}} 345–382) was a Roman politician and administrator.
== Life == Afranius was a member of the Roman aristocratic family of the Syagrii, which originated in Lyon.<ref name=Olszaniec>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RkYPCAAAQBAJ&dq=Flavius+Afranius+Syagrius&pg=PA390 Olszaniec, Szymon. ''Prosopographical studies on the court elite in the Roman Empire (4th century A. D.)'', Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika, 2013] {{ISBN|9788323131434}}</ref> In the same years in which Afranius lived, another Syagrius is attested (he was consul in 381), and it is not always possible to distinguish the career of the two Syagrii.
In 369, Afranius is attested as ''notarius''. In that year, the Roman Emperor Valentinian I removed him from his office after a failed military operation, and Afranius dedicated himself to private life.
He continued his career under Emperor Gratian, possibly because of his friendship with the poet Ausonius. Afranius was ''magister memoriae'' in 379, when someone named Theodorus succeeded him. Between June 18, 380, and August of 382 he is attested as Praetorian prefect of Italy.<ref name=Olszaniec/> In 381 he was also ''praefectus urbi'' of Rome and Consul in 382.
==See also== * Afrania gens * Tonantius Ferreolus (prefect), maternal grandson
==Notes== {{notelist-lr}}
==Citations== {{Reflist}}
==References== * ''CLRE'' – {{cite book |author=Roger S. Bagnall |year=1987 |author2=Alan Cameron |author3=Seth R. Schwartz |author4=Klaas A. Worp |author4-link=Klaas Worp |title=Consuls of the Later Roman Empire |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=1-55540-099-X |name-list-style=amp |url={{googlebooks|5zMMAQAAMAAJ|plainurl=y}} |author-link=Roger S. Bagnall |author-link2=Alan Cameron (classical scholar) |author-link3=Seth Schwartz |ref={{sfnref|''CLRE''}} }} * ''PLRE'' 1 – {{cite book |last=Jones |year=1971 |first=A.H.M. |author2=J.R. Martindale |author3=J. Morris |title=The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire Volume 1: A.D. 260–395 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-07233-6 |url={{googlebooks|uOHw4idqAeYC|plainurl=y}} |name-list-style=amp |author-link=A. H. M. Jones |author-link2=John Robert Martindale |author-link3=John Morris (historian) |ref={{sfnref|''PLRE'' 1}} }} *Potter, David Stone, ''The Roman Empire at Bay: Ad 180-395'', Routledge, 2004, {{ISBN|0-415-10057-7}}, pp. 545–546.
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef | before= Syagrius |before2=Eucherius }} {{s-ttl | title= Consul of the Roman Empire | years= 382 |regent1=Claudius Antonius }} {{s-aft | after= Merobaudes II |after2=Saturninus }}
{{s-bef | before= Anicius Paulinus }} {{s-ttl | title= ''Praefectus urbi'' of Rome | years= 381 }} {{s-aft | after= Valerius Severus }} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Syagrius, Afranius}} Category:4th-century Roman consuls Syagrius Category:Praetorian prefects of Italy Category:Urban prefects of Rome Category:Year of death unknown Category:Year of birth unknown