Modia (gens)

The Modii are known to have used the praenomina Quintus, Septimus, Marcus, Gaius, and Lucius, all of which were very common, except for Septimus, which was quite unusual.[2] The first Modius to appear in history was a duumvir of Luceria in Apulia at the end of the Pyrrhic War; the gens might therefore come from this city.

• Gaius Modius Cr. f., duumvir of Luceria circa 275 BC; he minted bronze coins during his magistracy.[lower-roman 1][3]
• Septimus Modius, known from an inscription.[4]
• Quintus Modius Equiculus, mentioned by Varro.[5]
• Marcus Modius, mentioned by Cicero.[6]
• Gaius Modius Justus, propraetor of Numidia in an uncertain year.[7]
• Quintus Modius, described as the brother of Gaius Vibius Postumus, probably the same who was proconsul of Asia during the reign of Nero.[7]
• Modia, a Roman matron mentioned by Juvenal.[8]
• Modius Terventinus, praefectus vehiculorum in AD 214.[7]
• Modius Julius, governor of Britannia Inferior in AD 219.[7]
• Gaius Modius Taurus, a Roman aristocrat, mentioned in an inscription of uncertain date.[7]

• List of Roman gentes

• Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum Rusticarum (Rural Matters).
• Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem.
• Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satirae (Satires).
• Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).
• August Pauly, Georg Wissowa, et alii, Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, J. B. Metzler, Stuttgart (1894–1980).
• George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII (1897).
• Paul von Rohden, Elimar Klebs, & Hermann Dessau, Prosopographia Imperii Romani (The Prosopography of the Roman Empire, abbreviated PIR), Berlin (1898).
• Oliver D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of Italy and Magna Graecia, Sixth to First Centuries BC [The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, Volume 1], Lancaster/London, Classical Numismatic Group, 2018.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Modius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. II. p. 1109.