Tuldila (458) was aHun leader inMajorian's army.
In early 458, Western Roman Emperor Majorian gathered a vast army formed by barbarian tribes, includingChunus, for the campaign against theVandals.[1]Sidonius Apollinaris recounts:
"...around thee thronged thousands under diverse standards. Only one race denied thee obedience, a race who had lately, in a mood even more savage than their wont, withdrawn their untamed host from theDanube because they had lost their lords in warfare, and Tuldila stirred in that unruly multitude a mad lust for fight which they must needs pay dear".[1]
This account refers to the loss ofEllac and other chieftains, theBattle of Nedao was fought only few years before, and they withdrawn from the Danube, now occupied by former Germanic subjects.[2] Those Huns were situated inMoesia Superior andDacia Ripensis.[2]
Tuldila's, like the name ofTulan Qaghan (Τουλδίχ; 580s) of theGöktürks, derives fromTurkic *tuld (composed ofuld orult, seeUldin), and diminutive suffixin/ach (+q,+k) ie. Germanic diminutive suffix-ila.[3]