Note 111
Liutprand, whose choleric temper was
embittered by his uneasy situation, suggests the names of
reproach and contempt more applicable to Nicephorus than the
vain titles of the Greeks,
Ecce venit stella matutina,
surgit Eous, reverberat obtutu solis radios, pallida
Saracenorum mors, Nicephorus 
.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 52