Hostus Hostilius
1. HOSTUS HOSTILIUS, of Medullia, was the first of the Hostilian name at Rome. He married the Sabine matron Hersilia [HERSILIA], by whom he had a son, the father of Tullus Hostilius, third king of Rome. In the war that sprung from the rape of the Sabine women, Hostilius was the champion of Rome, and fell in battle. (Liv. 1.12; Dionys. A. R. 3.1. Macr. 1.6.)
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.