Gens:

HOSIDIUS

Created:

10th March 2011

Update:

6th August 2015

Status Republic:

Patrician:

Pleb. Nobilis:

Senatorial:

X

Eques Romanus:

Republican Family / Cognomen

Patrician

n/a

Pleb. Nobilis

n/a

Senatorial

Geta

Equestrian

n/a

Imperial Family / Cognomen

Imperators

n/a

Consular

Geta, Mauricus

Senatorial

n/a

Equestrian

Severus

Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors

0

Imperial Consuls and Emperors

2

incl. 0 emperors

Notes:

family from Histonium in Samnium

Literature

Birley: Britain p.234-235 (C.Hosidius Geta H217)

Boube, Jean: "La dédicace du Capitole de Sala (Maroc) et la base honorifique de C. Hosidius Severus", in  MEFRA T.102, 1990, pp.213-246

Scheid: Freres Arvales p.53 (§92 C.Vitorius Hosidius Geta)

Settipani: Gentilice p.235-237 conjectures that the use of the cognomen Geta with the Septimii derives from a daughter of M.Vitorius Marcellus

who married L.Septimius Severus, the grandfather of the emperor L.Septimius Severus and his brother P.Septimius Geta cos 203.

Thomasson: Fasti Africani p.198 (Cn.Hosidius Geta H216)

Vogel-Weidemann: Statthalter p.179-184 (§22 Cn.Hosidius Geta H216)

Changes

6.8.2015 New header, added more details, literature list and added Hosidius Severus.

C.Hosidius

RE4

C.Hosidus C.f. Geta

IIIvir monet 68

proscribed 43 later pardoned (no praenomen)

REPUBLIC

IMPERIAL

H214 RE3

H215 RE2

(Hosidius Geta)

Hosidius Geta

Hosidius Geta

possibly = H214 or H215

tragic poet

IIIIvir viarum curandarum

contemporary of Virgil

q provincia, quaesitor

? = father of H216/H217

inscription Histonium

sub AUGUSTUS

? = father of H216/H217

H216 RE6

H217 RE5

Cn.Hosidius Geta

C.Hosidius Geta

leg Aug in Mauretania 42

leg leg in Britannia 43

Creta+Cyrene

ornamenta triumphalia

cos suff 47

rex sacrorum, flamen (Claudialis?)

procos Africa c.57-58

leg propr Iberia

trib Arn.

adlectus inter patricios 47/48

H220

RE10

FOS419

H219 RE8

Cn.Hosidius Mauricus

(Hosidia)

Q.Hosidius C.f. Geta

cos suf an.inc.1st/2nd century

ment on stone in Histonium

son or descendent of cos 47

~ M.Vitorius Marcellus

legat 83 ?

cos suff 105

V518

RE Vit 1

H218 RE7

C.Vitorius Hosidius Geta

?=?

M.Hosidius M.f. (Geta)

coopted frat Arv 118 attested till 134

trib. Arnensis

q Caesar, pr ante 119

SC witness 138

cos ca.126/130

? = C.Vitorius Geta ?

full name possibly

M.Vitorius M.f. C.Hosidius Geta

AE1991-1749

C.Hosidius Cn.f. Severus

trib.Claudia

praef fabrum, 2 x praef coh,

tr mil VII Claudia, praef alae,

proc Aug for census in Britannia

ab Sala in Mauritania

sub TRAJAN/HADRIAN (when procurator)