Hosidius Geta
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Hosidius Geta (/ˈɡɛtə/ GHET-ə; fl. late 2nd – early 3rd century AD) was a Roman playwright. Tertullian refers to him as his contemporary in the De Prescriptione Haereticorum.
Geta was the author of a tragedy in 462 verses titled Medea. It is the earliest known example of a Virgilian cento, that is, a poem constructed entirely out of lines and half-lines from the works of Virgil. The poet used Virgilian hexameters for the spoken parts of the play, and half-hexameters for the choral parts.
