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'''[[Flavia gens#As an imperial title|Flavius]] Strategius Apion Strategius Apion''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Στρατήγιος Άπίων; died between 577 and 579) was a [[Patrician (ancient Rome)#Late Roman and Byzantine period|patrician]] and jurist of the [[Byzantine Empire|Eastern Roman Empire]] and the sole [[Roman consul]] of the year 539. He was a member of the wealthy and prominent [[Apion (family)|Apion]] family of [[Oxyrhynchus]], [[Egypt (Roman province)|Egypt]].<ref name=Apion3>{{harvnb|Jones|Martindale|Morris|1992|loc="Fl. Strategius Apion Strategius Apion 3", pp. 96–98}}.</ref>

==Biography==
Strategius Apion was the son of a senior Strategius and a patrician in the Byzantine Empire. He had a son named Strategius, named in one of the [[Oxyrhynchus Papyri]]. This son and his wife Eusebia maintained friendly relations with [[Pope Gregory I]], mentioned in his extant correspondence.<ref>{{harvnb|Jones|Martindale|Morris|1992|loc="Fl. Apion 4", pp. 98–99}}.</ref> The youngest Strategius was not the only heir of Apion mentioned in the latter's will. He shared his inheritance with Praejecta, another Apion, and Georgius. An interpretation of the text suggests Praejecta was the widow of Apion, while Strategius, Apion, and Georgius were their three sons.<ref name=Apion3/>

Strategius Apion is mentioned variously as consul, ''[[vir illustris]]'', and ''[[comes domesticorum]]'' during the 530s. He was a contemporary of the emperor [[Justinian I]], by whom he is named in terms of high commendation in the 82nd Novell of Justinian's ''[[Novellae Constitutiones]]'' on account of the excellent discharge of his legal duties as the assessor of Marcellus. Texts from circa 547-548 mention him as a patrician. Texts from circa 548/549 to 550/551 mention him as ''[[dux]]'' of the [[Thebaid]]. This position typically came with the honorific title of ''patrician''. He is called patrician in a 556 text indicating he had already received the title. He was mentioned at the time as [[Stratelates|''a stratelates'']] and [[Nome (Egypt)|pagarch]] of [[Crocodilopolis|Arsinoe]]. This placed him in charge of the pagarchy local to Oxyrhynchus and its vicinity.<ref name=Apion3/>

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri preserve information about the extent of the familial estates and their business affairs. [[John Malalas]] also mentions a residence of Apion in [[Constantinople]] for an incident in May 562, when certain persons of the House of Apion hurled verbal insults at the Green faction of the [[Hippodrome of Constantinople|Hippodrome]]. Apion is presumed active in the [[Byzantine Senate]] when present at Constantinople capital. He is last mentioned alive in 577, mentioned as already deceased by 579.<ref name=Apion3/>

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==Sources==
*{{cite book|editor-last1=Jones|editor-first1=A.H.M.|editor-link1=A. H. M. Jones|editor-last2=Martindale|editor-first2=J. R.|editor-link2=John Robert Martindale|editor-last3=Morris|editor-first3=John|editor-link3=John Morris (historian)|url=https://archive.org/details/prosopography-later-roman-empire/PLRE-III-A/page/n109/mode/1up?view=theater|title=Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire|volume=III|date=1992|isbn=9780521072335}}
*{{DGRBM|author=JTG|title=Appion|volume=1|page=247|url=http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0001.001/262}}

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