Note 093
From Chapter 52 of the Decline & Fall

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).