Not much is known about the early career of Geta, who was born into the Plebeian gens Licinia.
[2] After his tenure in office, Geta was expelled from the Senate in 115 BC along with 31 other senators by the order of the two Censors Lucius Caecilius Metellus Diadematus and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.
[3] At a subsequent census, Geta was reinstated as a senator.
[4] He was later himself elected as Censor in 108 BC, alongside his consular colleague Quintus Fabius Maximus Eburnus.
During their censorship, they reappointed Marcus Aemilius Scaurus as princeps senatus.