Inter tot urgentia, Hermogene defuncto, ad praefecturam promovetur Helpidius, ortus in Paphlagonia, aspectu vilis et lingua, sed simplicioris ingenii, incruentus et mitis, adeo ut cum ei coram innocentem quendam torquere Constantius praecepisset, aequo animo abrogari sibi potestatem oraret, haecque potioribus aliis ex sententia principis agenda permitti.
In the midst of such urgent affairs Hermogenes died and Helpidius was promoted to the prefecture, a man born in Paphlagonia, ordinary in appearance and speech, but of a simple nature, so averse to bloodshed and so mild that once when Constantius had ordered him to torture an innocent man in his presence, he quietly asked that his office might be taken from him and these matters left to more suitable men, to be carried out according to the sovereigns mind.
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