Legatus Augusti pro praetore Moesiae inferioris. His name appears on coins in Nicopolis ad Istrum, not before AD 241. Lit.:
B. E. Thomasson, Laterculi Praesidum I (1984) 144 no. 133 (c. AD 241-244); PIR² S 5 (SAB[INIVS more probable than SAB[VCIVS]
MODESTVS); W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 693 s. v. Modestos (c. AD 238-244).