Dagistheus

Dagistheus (fl. 479) was an Ostrogothic chieftain. The name is Germanic.[1] Theodoric the Great (r. 474–526) sent Dagistheus and Soas as hostages to Adamantius in Epirus in 479.[1] He was presumably a leading Ostrogothic chieftain under Theodoric.[1] The Roman baths in Constantinople were possibly named after him.[1] He may have been an ancestor of the later Byzantine general Dagisthaeus.[1]

References
  1. Jones, Martindale & Morris 1980, p. 341.

Sources
  • Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin; Martindale, John Robert; Morris, J. (1980). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Cambridge University Press. pp. 341–. ISBN 978-0-521-20159-9.
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