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364, 367. Geta (jetä), Publius Septimius. Born at Milan, May, May, 189: a a inated by order of Car a call a, Feb., 212. Second son of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna, brother of Car a call a, and joint emperor with him 211-212. Getæ (je'te). [Sometimes in E. form Getes ; L. Getæ, Gr. Γέται. The name is not connected with that of the Gauti or that of the Gothi or Goths.] In ancient history, a Thracian people dwelling in the modern Bulgaria, and later in the modern Be arabia. In ancient times the countries north of the Danube mouths were inhabited by a people called Getes (in Latin Getæ). The poet Ovid was sent to live among this people when August us banished him from Rome. Now ... in the third century after Christ the Goths came and dwelt in the land of the Getes, and to some extent mingled with the native inhabitants; and so the Romans came to think that Goths and Getes were only two names for the same people, or rather two different ways of pronouncing the same word. Even the historian Jordanes, himself a Goth, actually calls his book a Getic history [" De rebus Geticis"), and mixes up the traditions of his own people with the tales which he had read in books about the Getes. that the Getes really were Goths, and that the early territory In modern times some great scholars have tried to prove of the Gothic nation reached all the way from the Baltic to the Black Sea. But the ablest authorities are now mostly agreed that this is a mistake, and that when the Goths migrated to the region of the Danube it was to settle amongst a people of a different race, speaking a foreign tongue.