Getae, a Thracian tribe mentioned by Herodotus and Thucydides as living S. of the Ister (Danube), and by later writers among the tribes N. of that river. Some critics regard them as identical with the Dacians, others with the Goths. Rawlinson, in his notes on Herodotus, favors the latter opinion, and points to the "striking analogy of the compounds Massa-getae, Thyssagetse, and Tyrigetse, to the later names of Visigoths and Ostrogoths."