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).