 Zosimus (1.68) reports them being defeated by the emperor Probus in 278 near a river, together with Silingian Vandals.A few years later, Claudius Mamertinus mentions them along with the Alamanni, a Suebic people.These two peoples had moved into the Agri Decumates on the eastern side of the Rhine, an area today referred to still as Swabia, at times attacking Roman Gaul together and sometimes fighting each other.