In the East he was styled (Continuator
Theophan. l. iii. p. 84);
but such was the ignorance of the
West, that his ambassadors, in public discourse, might
boldly narrate,
de victoriis, quas adversus exteras bellando gentes coelitus fuerat assecutus (Annalist. Bertinian. apud Pagi, tom. iii. p. 720).