Pincus was originally Thracians and Dacians settlement conquerded in the first century AD and incoroprated to the Roman Empire province of Upper Moesia.
See:
- Michael J. Ackner, Friedrich Müller, Die Römischen Inschriften in Dacien, Wien 1885, p. 1 - http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/fs1/object/display/bsb10256330_00033.html