elpidius

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The monarch instantly retired to his chamber, and, as he lay, trembling with aguish cold, under a weight of bed-clothes, he expressed, in broken murmurs to his physician Elpidius, his deep repentance for the murders of Boethius and Symmachus.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4