GEPIDÆ, GEPIDES, or GEPIDI (anc. geog.), according to Procopius, were a Gothic people, or a canton or branch of them; some of whom, in the migration of the Goths, settled in an island at the mouth of the Vistula, which they called Gepidas after their own name, which denotes lazy or slothful; others in Dacia, calling their settlement there Gepidas.