Gŏthi, ōrum, m., = Γόθοι,
I the Goths , the great tribe of Northern Germany : huc possem victos inde referre Gŏthos, Aus. Epigr. 3 fin. ; Inscr. Orell. 1135; 1159; and scanned Gōthi, id. ib. 1162 (of the year A. D. 565). Usually regarded as the same tribe, called, at an earlier period, Gŏthōnes or Gŏtōnes , Tac. A. 2, 62; and, Gŭtōnes , Plin. 4, 14, 28, § 99; 37, 2, 11, § 35; but these were more probably the Getae, i. e. the Prussians and Lithuanians; cf. Holzmann ad Tac. G. p. 260 sq.—
II Derivv.:
A Gŏthĭa , ae, f., the country of the Goths , Amm. 30, 2.—
B Gŏ-thĭcus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Goths , Gothic : bellum, Trebell. XXX. Tyrann. 30.— Gothicus , i, m., a surname bestowed on the conqueror of the Goths , Inscr. Grut. 276, 4; Num. ap. Eckh. D. N. V. 7, p. 472.