In the battle Gordian’s son and his entourage fell, but, because of the many dead, their bodies could not be brought back for burial, and the son’s body was never found.
Edition :
Herodian. History of the Empire, Volume I: Books 1-4. Translated by C. R. Whittaker. Loeb Classical Library 454. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969.
Herodian. History of the Empire, Volume II: Books 5-8. Translated by C. R. Whittaker. Loeb Classical Library 455. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970.
Remark :
motive: He may have been killed by the army of Capellianus or trampled by his own fleeing men.
