r generals Alavivus and
Fritigern, revolt from Valens, and defeat Lupicinus and his
army.--VI. Why Sueridus and Colias, nobles of the Gothic nation,
after having been received in a friendly manner, revolted; and
after slaying the people of Hadrianopolis, united themselves to
Fritigern, and then turned to ravage Thrace.--VII. Profuturus,
Trajan, and Richomeres fought a drawn battle against the
Goths.--VIII. The Goths being hemmed in among the defiles at the
bottom of the Balkan, after the Romans by returning had let them
escape, invaded Thrace, plundering, massacring, ravishing, and
burning, and slay Barzimeres, the tribune of the Scutarii.--IX.
Frigeridus, Gratian's general, routs Farnobius at the head of a
large body of Goths and Taifalae; sparing the rest, and giving them
some lands around the Po.--X. The Lentiensian Alemanni are
defeated in battle by the generals of the emperor Gratian, and
their king Priamis is slain. Afterwards, having yielded and
furnished Gratian with a body of recruits, they are allowed to
return to their own country.--XI. Sebastian surprises the Goths at
Beraea as they are returning home loaded with plunder, and defeats
them with great slaughter; a few saved themselves by flight.
Gratian hastens to his uncle Valens, to carry him aid against the
Goths.--XII. Valens, before the arrival of Gratian resolves to
fight the Goths.--XIII. All the Goths unite together, that is to
say, the Thuringians, under their king Fritigern. The Gruthungi,
under their dukes Alatheus and Salaces, encounter the Romans in a
pitched battle, rout their cavalry, and then falling on the
infantry when deprived of the support of their horse, and huddled
together in a dense body, they defeat them with enormous loss, and
put them to flight. Valens is slain, but his body cannot be
found.--XIV. The virtues and vices of Valens.--XV. The victorious
Goths besiege Hadrianopolis, where Valens had left his treasures
and his insignia of imperial rank, with the prefect and the members
of his council; but after trying every means to take the city,
without success, they at last retire.--XVI. The Goths, having by
bribes won over the forces of the Huns and of the Alani to join
them, make an attack upon Constantinople without success. The
device by which Julius, the