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).