Editing Quadi (section)

==Third century==
[[File:Caracalla 6033 dettaglio Museo Nazionale Napoli.jpg|thumb|Caracalla: Museo Nazionale Napoli]]
Around 214/215 AD, Dio Cassius reports that because of raids into Pannonia, the emperor [[Caracalla]] invited the Quadi king [[Gaiobomarus]] to meet him, and then had him executed. According to this report Caracalla "claimed that he had overcome the recklessness, greed, and treachery of the Germans by deceit, since these qualities could not be conquered by force", and he was proud of the "enmity with the Vandili and the Marcomani, who had been friends, and in having executed Gaïobomarus".<ref>{{harvtxt|Kolník|2003|p=634}} citing Dio Cassius, ''Roman History'', [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/78*.html 78]</ref>

During the reign of [[Philip the Arab]] (reigned 244-249), who cut off gifts which were being paid to Ukrainian Goths under the rule of [[Ostrogotha]], the 6th century writer [[Jordanes]] believed that the Marcomanni were paying tribute to Ostrogotha, and the princes of the Quadi were effectively slaves of the Goths.

By the middle of the third century the Quadi seem to have rejected their client relationship with Rome, and they began a series of attacks which they organized together with their eastern neighbours the Sarmatians. Together they repeatedly attacked Illyricum. There was a Roman campaign against the Quadi in 283-284 AD, and as a result emperor [[Carinus]] (co-emperor 283-285) and [[Numerian]] (co-emperor 284-285) celebrated this as two personal triumphs in 283 and 284. Nevertheless the Quadi were again mentioned among attacking Germanic tribes in 285 AD. This situation seems to have been pacified in the time of Diocletian (reigned 284-305).{{sfn|Kolník|2003|p=634}}