Saphrax
Overview
Vithimiris
Vithimiris was a king of the Ostrogoths , ruling for some unspecified time in the area of today south Ukraine. He succeeded to Ermanaric, meaning that he probably reigned in 376. Ammianus Marcellinus, the only known source on him, states that after Ermanaric´s death he tried to resist the Alani,...
in 376. After the war with the Huns
Huns
The Huns were a group of nomadic people who, appearing from east of the Volga River, migrated into Europe c. AD 370 and established the vast Hunnic Empire there. Since de Guignes linked them with the Xiongnu, who had been northern neighbours of China 300 years prior to the emergence of the Huns,...
, he led his town for the Roman Empire
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
. Just as Alatheus
Alatheus
Alatheus was a Greuthung chieftain and general. He fought during the Hunnish invasion of 376, engaged in war with Rome from 376 to 383, and incursions into the Balkans in 387...
, he fought in the Battle of Adrianople
Battle of Adrianople
The Battle of Adrianople , sometimes known as the Battle of Hadrianopolis, was fought between a Roman army led by the Roman Emperor Valens and Gothic rebels led by Fritigern...
in 378.
- Burns, Thomas S., Barbarians within the gates of Rome: a study of Roman military policy and the barbarians, ca. 375-425 A.D, Indiana University Press, 1994. ISBN 0253312884 http://books.google.fr/books?id=2ms5CWtIQ5oC&lpg=PA61&dq=Saphrax&pg=PA56#v=onepage&q=Saphrax&f=false
- Burns, Thomas S., A history of the Ostrogoths, Indiana University Press, 1991.