Modia (gens)

The gens Modia was a minor family at Ancient Rome, known from a small number of individuals.^[1]

Praenomina used by the gens

The Modii are known to have used the praenomina Quintus, Septimus, Marcus, Gaius, and Lucius.^[2][3]

Members of the gens

• Quintus Modius Equiculus, spoken of by the scholar Marcus Terentius Varro.^[4]
• Septimus Modius, known from an inscription.^[5]
• Marcus Modius, spoken of by Cicero.^[6]
• Modia, a Roman matron mentioned by Juvenal.^[7]
• Modius Julius, governor of Britannia Inferior in A.D. 219.

See also

• List of Roman gentes

Footnotes

1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
2. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor.
3. ^ Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
4. ^ Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum Rusticarum libri III, ii. 7.
5. ^ Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
6. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem, ii. 48.
7. ^ Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Satires, iii. 130.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).