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]