and his forces attempted to flee back across the Hellespont, but their rag-tag ad hoc fleet was met and destroyed by another Goth in Imperial service, Fravitta, who was subsequently made consul for 401 but was later accused of treason and executed as well. After this battle, Gainas fled across the Danube and was caught by the Huns under Uldin. Gainas was killed, and his head was sent by Uldin to Arcadius c. 400 as a diplomatic gift. After the revolt, Arcadius erected the Column of Arcadius, on which friezes depicted his triumph over Gainas. Gainas' usurpation is the subject of the Egyptian Tale and might also be the subject of the speech On Imperial Rule by Synesius of Cyrene who may have represented an anti-barbarian faction within the Byzantine nobility. Herwig Wolfram, the historian of the Goths, notes that the death of Gainas marks an end to the relatively pluralistic Gothic tribal development with independent warbands: "thereafter only two ethnogeneses were possible: that of the Roman Goths within the empire and that of the Hunnic Goths at its doorstep". Notes References Zosimus Book V Socrates of Constantinople Book VI Sozomen Book VIII Theodoret Book V George of Alexandria, Life of St. Chrysostom, in Photios, Myriobiblon, 96 Alan Cameron and Jacqueline Long, Barbarian and Politics at the Court of Arcadius, Berkeley et Los Angeles, 1993. Alexander Kazhdan (éd.), The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, 3 vols., Oxford University Press, 1991 () (fr) André Piganiol, L'Empire chrétien, PUF, Paris, 1972. Herwig Wolfram, History of the Goths (1978) tr., 1988. 4th-century births 400 deaths 4th-century Byzantine people 5th-century Byzantine people 4th-century Christians 5th-century Christians 4th-century Gothic people 5th-century Romans of Gothic descent Comites rei militaris Gothic warriors Magistri militum Roman consuls designate Arian Christians Year of birth unknown