Battle of Frigidus River

…ambush Theodosius, but the two-day battle of Frigidus (at the Frigidus River, modern Vipava River) on September 5 and 6 ended in victory for Theodosius. Eugenius was beheaded; Arbogast committed suicide.

…met the enemy at the Frigidus River on the eastern border of Italy. Although Theodosius’s advance guard, composed almost entirely of Visigoths, suffered heavy losses during an attempted breakthrough on September 5, 394, the emperor ventured to attack the following day and was victorious. Later Christian tradition, emphasizing Theodosius’s piety…