Hostilia Quarta
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.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.