4th century BC) was the son of a freedman (libertinus) and rose to the office of aedile in the Roman Republic.
[1] Flavius was secretary (scriba) to the consul Appius Claudius, a civil service job paid from the public treasury.
As a result of his high profile, he was elected aedile for 304 BC, one of two magistrates responsible for the maintenance of public buildings, purchase of grain, and regulation of festivals, despite the fact that at the time the sons of freedmen were also regarded merely as libertini.
His election shocked the traditional governing elite into enacting voter registration "reforms" designed to curtail the growing voting power of freedmen in Rome.
[2] As aedile, Flavius also displayed in the Forum a calendar indicating the dies fasti, those days on which legal business was permitted.