Hostius
Hostĭus, a,
- name of a Roman gens, Sall. H. 4, p. 228 Gerl. Min. (Dietsch, 4, 27; Hostilius); Sen. Q. N. 1, 16 al.
Hostius
A Roman poet, perhaps a contemporary of Lucilius the satirist. He wrote a poem on the Istrian War, which took place in B.C. 178. Some fragments of this have reached our time. Hostius wrote also metrical annals, after the manner of Ennius. See Bergk, Kl. Schr. i. 252.