Gepid

From Latin Gepidae.

Gepid (plural Gepids or Gepidae)

1. (historical) A member of an East Germanic people related to the Goths.
   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V:

     A standing army was unknown under the first and second race; more than half the kingdom was now in the hands of the Saracens: according to their respective situation, the Franks of Neustria and Austrasia were to conscious or too careless of the impending danger; and the voluntary aids of the Gepidæ and Germans were separated by a long interval from the standard of the Christian general.

   • 1906, William Dudley Foulke, History of the Langobards, translation of original by Diaconus Paulus, page 42:

     The Gepidae, seeing that the king's son was killed, through whom in great part the war had been set on foot, at once, in their discouragement, start to flee.

   • 1989, Walter Goffart, Rome's Fall and After, page 178:

     Two consecutive letters hi the Varioe are concerned with a "multitude" of Gepids whom Theodoric has taken under his wing and is sending across northern Italy to Gaul, where they will serve in some sort of military capacity.

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