Origin of the Huns Roman historians Themistius 317 390 Claudian 370 404 and later Procopius 500 560 called the Huns Massagetae The World of the Huns Otto Maenchen Helfen page 4 But considering that Themistius Claudian and later Procopius called the Huns Massagetae The Huns were called Massagetae also by Ambrose 340 397 Ausonius 310 394 Synesius 373 414 Zacharias Rhetor 465 535 Belisarius 500 565 Evagrius Scholasticus 6th century and others Alexander Cunningham B S Dahiya 1980 23 and Edgar Knobloch 2001 15 identify Massagetae with the Great Yuezhi Da Yuezhi Ta Yue ti Great Lunar Race Ta Gweti Massa Getae Dahiya wrote about the Massagetae and Thyssagetae These Guti people had two divisions the Ta Yue Che and Siao Yue Che exactly corresponding to the Massagetae and Thyssagetae of Herodotus Dahiya 1980 23 Thyssagetae who are known as the Lesser Getae correspond with the Xiao Yuezhi meaning Lesser Yuezhi SINO PLATONIC PAPERS Number 127 October 2003 page 22 24