Hostilia
was married first to Cn. Fulvius Flaccus, by whom she had a son. Q. Fulvius Flaccus [FLACCUS, Q. FULVIUS, No. 9], and secondly, to C. Calpurnius Piso, consul in B. C. 180. She was accused and convicted of poisoning her second husband, in order that her son by the first marriage might succeed him in the consulship. (Liv. 40.37.) [W.B.D]
came originally from Medullia, and was probably transported thence to Rome by Romulus. (Dionys. A. R. 3.1.) It is uncertain whether the Hostilia gens under the republic traced their descent from this source; but two coins of L. Hostilius Saserna, bearing the heads of Pallor and Pavor, indicate such an origin, since Tullus Hostilius, in his war with Veii and Fidenae, vowed temples to Paleness and Panic. (Liv. 1.27; Lactant. 1.20; Augustin. de Civ. Dei, 4.15, 23, 6.10.) The Hostilia gens had the surnames Cato, Firminus (see below), Mancinus, Rutilus, Saserna, and Tubulus. [W.B.D]
HOSTI´LIA a small town of Cisalpine Gaul, situated on the N. bank of the Padus, about 10 miles below the confluence of the Mincius: it is still called Ostiglia. Pliny (Plin. Nat. 21.12. s. 43) calls it only a village (vicus); and we learn from Tacitus that it was dependent on Verona ( vicus Veronensium,Hist. 3.9). But in the civil war between Vitellius and Vespasian it was occupied by Caecina, the lieutenant of the former, as a military post of importance, commanding the passage of the Padus, and secured on its flank by the extensive marshes of the Tartarus. (Id. Hist. 2.100, 3.9, 14, 21, 40.) It is again mentioned by Cassiodorus in the 6th century (Var. 2.31), and was probably a considerable place in ancient as well as modern times, though it did not enjoy municipal privileges. The Itinerary correctly places it 30 M. P. from Verona on the road to Bononia (Itin. Ant. p. 282), while the Table gives 33 (Tab. Pent. ).
[E.H.B]Now Ostiglia; a small town in Gallia Cisalpina, on the Po, and on the road from Mutina Verona; the birthplace of Cornelius Nepos.