The consular portion of Maximus included three appointments. First was "curator aedium sacrarum", or overseer of temples, which Alföldy dates to around the year 160. His next appointment was as governor of Moesia Superior, which Alföldy dates from the year 161 to 162. In that later year Marcus Jallius Bassus became a member of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius' "comes" or inner circle of advisors during the Parthian War, and Maximus was appointed to replace him as governor of Moesia Inferior; according to Alföldy, he held this governorship until the year 166.