Florian has the support of Italia, Gaul,…

Florian has the support of Italia, Gaul, Hispania, Britain, Africa, and Mauretania.

Commanding superior forces, he immediately marches on his challenger.

The two armies close upon one another near Tarsus, but Probus manages to avoid a direct clash, resulting in a wary stalemate.

Florian's troops, largely drawn from bases along the Danube, are unused to the summer heat of the East, and heat exhaustion, sun stroke and similar ailments begin to erode morale in his camp until, on the eighty-eighth day of his reign, September 9, 276, he dies either at the hands of his own soldiers or by suicide.