HOSTIUS  , See also:

• ROMAN

Roman epic poet, probably flourished in the 2nd See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . He was the author of a Bellum Histricum in at least seven books, of which only a few fragments remain . The poem is probably intended to celebrate the victory gained in 129 by See also:

• GAIUS

Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus (See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul and himself an annalist) over the Illyrian See also:

• IAPYDES, or IAPODES

Iapydes (See also:

• APPIAN (Gr. 'Aairtavbs)

Appian, Illyrica, to; See also:

• LIVY [Thus L1v1us] (59 B.C.—A.D: 17)

Livy, epit . 59) . Hostius is supposed by some to be the " doctus avus " alluded to in See also:

• PROPERTIUS, SEXTUS (ft. 30-15 B.C.)

Propertius (iv . 20 . 8), the real name of Propertius's Cynthia, according to See also:

• APULEIUS, LUCIUS

Apuleius (Apologia x.) and the scholiast on See also:

• JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS) (c. 60-140)

Juvenal (vi . 7), being Hostia (perhaps Roscia) . Fragments in E . Bahrens, Fragmenta poetarum Romanorum (1884) ; A . Weichert, Poetarum Latinorum reliquiae (183o) .