Note 125
Ipse enim vos, non imperatorem, id est
suâ lingua, sed ob indignationem
id est regem nostrâ vocabat, Liutprand, in Legat. in Script. Ital. tom. ii. pars i. p. 479. The pope had exhorted Nicephorus, emperor of the Greeks, to make peace with Otho, the august emperor of the
Romans - quae inscriptio secundum Graecos peccatoria et temeraria ... imperatorem inquiunt, universalem, Romanorum, Augustum, magnum, solum, Nicephorum, (p. 486.)
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 49