alens himself was in the middle of the action at Adrianople (Ammianus, 31.13.8), although and the . Valens was then wounded by an arrow just as night was coming on, but, having fought amid the common soldiers (and possibly abandoning his imperial cloak), his body could not be identified. This was only one of a plethora of stories of Valens' demise - even Ammianus provides two. Ammianus' second version (31.13.14-15) has the wounded Valens taken to a fortified cottage. Surrounded by the enemy, the occupants defended themselves, but the Goths piled wood and straw around the house and burned it and everyone in it, including the emperor.
