Ostrogoths, or the Eastern Goths, a Teutonic people, who, having been induced to settle on the banks of the Danube, in the pay of the Roman emperor, invaded Italy, and founded in the end of the 5th century a kingdom under Theodoric, which fell before the arms of Justinian in 532.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ostracism * Oswald, St.