'''Marcus Flavius Aper''' was a Roman politician and senator in the second century AD.

==Biography== Aper's father was Marcus Flavius Aper, whom Ronald Syme has identified as suffect consul for the ''nundinium'' July-September 103.<ref>Syme, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/299703 "People in Pliny"], ''Journal of Roman Studies'', 58 (1968), pp.&nbsp;139f</ref> Another Marcus Flavius Aper served as consul in 176 AD; this Aper may be his son -- in which case the younger Aper achieved the consulate late in life -- or his grandson.<ref name=":0">The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Ch.4, p.&nbsp;546</ref>

He was appointed Governor of the province of Lycia et Pamphylia, and attested in that position from 125 to 127.<ref>Werner Eck, [https://publications.dainst.org/journals/chiron/1276/5625 "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139"], ''Chiron'' 13 (1983), pp.&nbsp;160f, 222 </ref> In 130 AD, he was elected ordinary consul together with Quintus Fabius Catullinus as his colleague.

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