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* Hosidius Geta, having been proscribed by the Second Triumvirate, triumvirs in 43 BC, was rescued by his son, who pretending that the elder Geta had taken his own life, performed the funeral rites, while concealing his father on one of his farms. The father disguised himself by wearing a bandage over one eye; but when he was pardoned, he found that he could no longer see with that eye. * Gnaeus Hosidius Geta, as promagistrate, propraetor of Numidia in AD 42, he saved his own troops and caused Sabalus to surrender when, at the suggestion of a native, he successfully used magic to induce rain. Subsequently he Roman triumph, triumphed over the Britons (Celtic people), Britons, although he was only the legatus, legate of Aulus Plautius. Geta was consul ''suffectus'' in AD 47.''Oxford Classical Dictionary'', 3rd Ed. * Gaius Hosidius Geta, brother of the consul of AD 47, he appears to have been Triumvir Monetalis, triumvir monetalis; a coin issued with his name depicts a boar. Some scholars believe that it was he, rather than his brother, who triumphed over the Britons, but this depends on whether Cassius Dio intended to write "C" for Gaius or "Cn" for Gnaeus, whose earlier victory in Africa was discussed in the same book. * Hosidia, daughter of Gnaeus (or possibly of Gaius) Hosidius Geta, who triumphed over the Britons, married Marcus Vitorius Marcellus; a poem of Statius, written in AD 95, describes her son, Gaius Vitorius Hosidius Geta, as having had a ''triumphalis avus''.Ronald Syme, "Ummidius Quadratus, ''Capax Imperii''" in ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'', vol. 83 (1979), p. 209. * Hosidius Geta, a playwright of the second century AD; author of a tragedy entitled ''Medea'', perhaps the first example of a Virgilian cento (poetry), cento.See also
* List of Roman gentesReferences
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