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A large number of Goths managed to escape towards Macedonia, initially defending themselves behind their laager.

Soon, many of them and their pack animals, distressed as they were by the harassment of the Roman cavalry and the lack of provisions, died of hunger.

The Roman army methodically pursued and surrounded the survivors at Mount Haemus where an epidemic affected the entrapped Goths.

After a bloody but inconclusive battle, they escaped but were pursued again until they surrendered.

Prisoners were admitted to the army or given land to cultivate and become coloni.

The members of the pirate fleet, after the failed attacks on Crete and Rhodes, retreated and many of them suffered a similar end.

However the disease also affected the pursuing Romans and the emperor as well, who died from it in 270.