ABSTRACT
In the late summer of 267 news reached Gallienus in Italy of a massive Gothic invasion of the Balkans and Asia Minor. Leaving Aureolus in Milan to guard Italy against possible attack from either Postumus or the Alamanni, Gallienus set out with his mobile strike force to meet this new challenge. Aurelian, by this time in his early fifties, was almost certainly among the senior officers accompanying Gallienus on that march. For Gallienus, this campaign was to mark the beginning of the end. For Aurelian, it was the end of the beginning.
