Cumque multorum taedio quos votorum inanitas cruciabat, tandem finita nocte lux advenisset, in unum quaesito milite omni, progressus Valentinianus in campum, permissusque tribunal ascendere celsius structum, comitiorum specie, voluntate praesentium secundissima, ut vir serius rector pronuntiatur imperii.
And when to the chagrin of many, tormented by their vain hopes, the night ended and day at last appeared, the whole army was assembled. Then Valentinian appeared on the plain, was allowed to mount a tribunal raised on high and after the custom of elections was chosen by the favourable votes of all present as a man of serious purpose, to be the ruler of the empire.
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