Hostilius
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.)
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