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Roman epic poet, probably flourished in the 2nd See also: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 Sempronius Tuditanus (See also:consul and himself an annalist) over the Illyrian See also:Iapydes (See also:Appian, Illyrica, to; See also:Livy, epit. 59). Hostius is supposed by some to be the " doctus avus " alluded to in See also:Propertius (iv. 20. 8), the real name of Propertius's Cynthia, according to See also:Apuleius (Apologia x.) and the scholiast on See also:Juvenal (vi. 7), being Hostia (perhaps Roscia). Fragments in E. Bahrens, Fragmenta poetarum Romanorum (1884) ; A. Weichert, Poetarum Latinorum reliquiae (183o).

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