# Theodosius defeats Eugenius at the Frigidus on 6 September 394; Eugenius is captured and killed

Date: 394

## The fact

Britannica and Catholic Encyclopedia independently record the 394 victory over Eugenius and Arbogast.

It is one event.

## Context

A second civil war in six years is a humanitarian-harm path. Gothic foederati in his army are the 382 file returning as troops. Pagan-restoration colour in Rufinus is source-bias.

[Theodosius I](/people/theodosius-i)’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

Britannica: sole rule after destroying western pretenders. [Socrates](/people/jose-socrates) and others date Frigidus 6 September 394; Arbogast dies days later. Christian sources sacralise a wind; that weather is not a meteorological file here. Clemency to partisans is a neighbouring offset.

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica — Theodosius I and Catholic Encyclopedia — Theodosius I independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Theodosius I (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodosius-I; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Frigidus is a humanitarian-harm path of high confidence on the received battle, medium on miraculous-wind clauses.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a sourced public record of this instrument at the date assigned here.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Theodosius I.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `humanitarian-access` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Theodosius I did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Do not print a wind as climate data. Do not merge with 388. Keep the carrier date of later English distinct from the received historical year stored in the date field. Do not read a later English edition as a recovered autograph of Theodosius I.

## People

- Theodosius I: https://factrail.ai/people/theodosius-i

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14577d.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodosius-I

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/theo-frigidus-394