Hosti'lius
4. C.
Hostilius was sent by the senate to Alexandria in B. C. 168 to interpose as legatus between Antiochus Epiphanes, king of Syria [ANTIOCHUS, IV.] and Ptolemy Physcon and Cleopatra, the sovereigns of Egypt. [CLEOPATRA, No. 6.] (
Liv. 44.19,
29.)