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He was born circa 95 in Alexandria.

He tells us, after having filled the chief offices in the province of Aegyptus ( Egypt ), he went to Rome circa 120, where he practised as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors ( probably as advocatus fisci ), that in 147 at the earliest he was appointed to the office of procurator, probably in Egypt, on the recommendation of his friend Marcus Cornelius Fronto, a well-known litterateur.

Because the position of procurator was open only to members of the equestrian order ( the " knightly " class ), his possession of this office tells us about Appian's family background.