Modestus
2. The name of Modestns is pretixed to three elogiac distichs in the Latin Anthololgy, the words of the dying Lucretia. The verses are very bad, and we know nothing of the author. (Burmann, Adthol. Lat. 2.171, No. 557, Meyer.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.