Alaric is allowed to escape after another…

Alaric is allowed to escape after another defeat before Verona in June, though his army is in bad condition.

He had not "penetrated to the city", but his invasion of Italy has produced important results.

It had caused the imperial residence to be transferred from Milan to Ravenna, and will soon necessitate the withdrawal of Legio XX Valeria Victrix from Britain.

Stilicho, having engaged Alaric successfully and pursued him northward, is probably capable of massacring the barbarians with his superior numbers, but instead develops a treaty with Alaric designed to aid the former's ambitions in invading and controlling the Eastern Roman empire.

Alaric withdraws to Illyricum, where the Western court again gives him office, though only as comes and only over Dalmatia and Pannonia Secunda rather than the whole of Illyricum.

Stilicho probably supposes that this pact will allow him to put Italian government into order and recruit fresh troops.