 Neither Tacitus nor Ptolemy mentioned them in their detailed lists of the "barbarians" in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.They first appear only in the late , and by this time they are already living in or near the area where they remained for the rest of their known history.According to the unreliable "Augustan History" of Emperor Claudius Gothicus (VI.2), Gepids were involved in the "Scythian" invasion of the Roman provinces in the Balkan Peninsula in 269, but routed them.