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Gento (Goth)
Gento
was a
5th-century
Gothic
warrior
in
Eastern Roman
service
. He was
married
to a
Roman
woman
from
Epirus
, and the
commander
of
a unit
of Roman
troops
. In
479
, when
Theodoric the Great
attempted
to
settle
the
Ostrogoths
in Epirus with
the help
of his
relative
Sidimund
, Gento and the
Eastern
Roman general
Sabinianus
were tasked with
preventing
it.