Profuturo (in Latin: Profuturus; ... - Ad Salices, 377) who fought in the Gothic War (376-382), probably dying during the Battle of the Salici (late summer 377).

At the beginning of the Gothic War, the Roman Emperor Valente was engaged in the East at the border with the Sasanid Empire, and could not personally engage in the threat posed by the penetration of the Goths inside the Roman territory in the Balkans . In 377 he then decided to appoint two new commanders, Profuturo and Trajan, and to entrust them to three Armenian comitatist legions and to go to Thrace to stop the Goths; Profuturo was probably named, on this occasion, comes rei militaris. Profuturo and Trajan carried their troops into Thrace, where they arrived in the late summer, and settled in the location known as Ad Salices. They were reached by the troops of Ricomere, came homeorum of the Roman Emperor of Western Graziano, who settled in Marcianopoli and assumed, with the consent of his colleagues, the command of the operations. The three commanders decided to face the Goths in a battlefield: the clash, known as the battle of the Willows, saw the Romans sink to the point of succumbing to the pressure of the most numerous enemies, but to defeat them, with great losses, with the help of the reserve. Profuturo is not named after the sources after this battle; historians believe he has fallen into the clash. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto

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