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<p><b>Quintus Licinius Modestinus [? Sextus] Attius Labeo</b> was a <a href="Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman</a> <a href="Roman_senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman senate">senator</a>, who held a number of imperial appointments during the middle of the second century AD. He was <a href="Roman_consul" title="Roman consul">suffect consul</a> in the year 146, following the death of <a href="Sextus_Erucius_Clarus" title="Sextus Erucius Clarus">Sextus Erucius Clarus</a> in March, serving until the end of June; his colleague was <a href="Gnaeus_Claudius_Severus_Arabianus" title="Gnaeus Claudius Severus Arabianus">Gnaeus Claudius Severus Arabianus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is known entirely from inscriptions.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2></div>
<p>An inscription from <a href="Castrimoenium" class="mw-redirect" title="Castrimoenium">Castrimoenium</a> (modern <a href="Marino%2C_Lazio" title="Marino, Lazio">Marino</a>), currently in the Gallaria Lapidaria of the <a href="Vatican_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="Vatican Museum">Vatican Museum</a>, provides us details of his <i><a href="Cursus_honorum" title="Cursus honorum">cursus honorum</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Modestinus began his career as one of the <i><a href="Decemviri_stlitibus_judicandis" title="Decemviri stlitibus judicandis">decemviri stlitibus judicandis</a></i>, one of the four boards that form the <i><a href="Vigintiviri" class="mw-redirect" title="Vigintiviri">vigintiviri</a></i>; membership in one of these four boards was a preliminary and required first step toward gaining entry into the Roman Senate. <a href="Mireille_Corbier" title="Mireille Corbier">Mireille Corbier</a> interprets the combination of this position and a lack of service as a <a href="Military_tribune" title="Military tribune">military tribune</a> as making him "predestined for an administrative career".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His next posting was as <a href="Quaestor" title="Quaestor">quaestor</a> to the <a href="Proconsul" title="Proconsul">proconsular</a> governor of <a href="Africa_(Roman_province)" title="Africa (Roman province)">Africa</a>, and upon completion of this traditional Republican magistracy Modestinus was enrolled in the Senate. Two more of the traditional Republican magistracies followed: <a href="Plebeian_tribune" class="mw-redirect" title="Plebeian tribune">plebeian tribune</a> and <a href="Praetor" title="Praetor">praetor</a>.
</p><p>Once he completed his term as praetor, Modestinus was qualified to hold several important offices. First was curator of the <a href="Via_Salaria" title="Via Salaria">Via Salaria</a>, which <a href="G%C3%A9za_Alf%C3%B6ldy" title="Géza Alföldy">Géza Alföldy</a> estimates was from around the year 138 to around 141.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was followed by <i><a href="Prefect" title="Prefect">prefectus</a> of the <a href="Aerarium_Saturni" class="mw-redirect" title="Aerarium Saturni">aerarium Saturni</a></i>; although Alföldy dates his tenure from around the year 141 to 144,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Corbier has argued in her monograph on the prefects of the Roman treasuries that his tenure extended from the year 138 to 140.<sup id="cite_ref-Corbier-211_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corbier-211-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While being prefect of this treasury in most cases led immediately to the consulate, Modestinus was instead governor of the public province of <a href="Achaea_(Roman_province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Achaea (Roman province)">Achaea</a> for the term 144/145.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Corbier lists two other men who held a propraetorian governorship before acceding to the consulate.<sup id="cite_ref-Corbier-211_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corbier-211-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Modestinus also held a number of Roman priesthoods. These included membership in the <i><a href="Collegium" class="mw-redirect" title="Collegium">collegium</a></i> of the <i><a href="Fetiales" class="mw-redirect" title="Fetiales">fetiales</a></i>, in the <a href="Sodales_Augustales" title="Sodales Augustales">sodales Augustales</a>, and in the <i><a href="Quindecimviri_sacris_faciundis" title="Quindecimviri sacris faciundis">Quindecimviri sacris faciundis</a></i>, the Roman priesthood entrusted with the care of the <a href="Sibylline_oracles" class="mw-redirect" title="Sibylline oracles">Sibylline oracles</a>.
</p><p>After his consulate, Modestinus' life is a blank.
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Werner_Eck" title="Werner Eck">Werner Eck</a>, "Die Fasti consulares der Regierungszeit des Antoninus Pius, eine Bestandsaufnahme seit Géza Alföldys Konsulat und Senatorenstand" in <i>Studia epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy</i>, hg. W. Eck, B. Feher, and P. Kovács (Bonn, 2013), p. 74</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="Corpus_Inscriptionum_Latinarum" title="Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum">CIL</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_einzel_en.php?p_belegstelle=CIL+14%2C+02405&r_sortierung=Belegstelle">XIV, 2405</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Corbier, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.persee.fr/doc/efr_0000-0000_1974_ths_24_1"><i>L'aerarium saturni et l'aerarium militare. Administration et prosopographie sénatoriale</i></a> (Rome: École Française de Rome, 1974), p. 210</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alföldy, <i>Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen</i> (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 295</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alföldy, <i>Konsulat und Senatorenstand</i>, p. 293</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Corbier-211-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Corbier-211_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Corbier-211_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Corbier, <i>L'aerarium saturni et l'aerarium</i>, p. 211</span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alföldy, <i>Konsulat und Senatorenstand</i>, p. 260</span>
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