or ELPI'DIUS, sometimes written Helfridius, was a Christian poet, who flourished towards the close of the fifth century, was physician to the Gothic monarch Theodoric, and is believed by many to be the Rusticus Helpidius commemorated in an inscription with the title of Exquaestor.
[W.R]A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890