engaged the "Scythians" under Cniva near Abritus. The strengths of the belligerent forces are unknown, but we know that Cniva divided his forces into three units, with one of these parts concealed behind a swamp. It seems that Cniva was a skilled tactician and that he was very familiar with the surrounding terrain. Jordanes and Aurelius Victor claim that Herennius Etruscus was killed by an arrow during a skirmish before the outset of the battle and that his father addressed his soldiers as if the loss of his son did not matter. He allegedly said, "Let no one mourn. The death of one soldier is not a great loss to the Republic". However, other sources state that Herennius died with his father. Terms of peace After the battle, the new emperor, Trebonianus Gallus, let Cniva leave with his spoils, and aided the Goths' departure. He even promised to pay a tribute to Cniva in order to keep him from invading the empire again. Death In 271, the Emperor Aurelian conclusively defeated the Goths and killed their king Cannobaudes in battle. Based on the similarity of the names, that king might coincide with Cniva. References Sources Aurelius Victor, De Caesaribus, par. 29.4-5 in Liber de Caesaribus of Sextus Aurelius Victor, critical edition by H. W. Bird, Liverpool University Press, 1994, Bowman A. K., Garnsey P., Cameron A. (ed.). The Cambridge Ancient History - vol XII The Crisis of Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 10. Potter, David S. The Roman Empire at Bay AD 180–395, Routledge, 2004. Southern, Pat. The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine, Routledge, 2001. Wolfram, Herwig. History of the Goths (transl. by Thomas J. Dunlap), University of California Press, 1988, Crisis of the Third Century Gothic kings Gothic warriors 3rd-century monarchs in Europe History of Plovdiv 3rd-century Gothic people