Note 016
The ambassador of Otho was provoked by the
Greek excuses, cum Christophori filiam Petrus Bulgarorum
Vasileus conjugem duceret, Symphona, id est consonantia
scripto juramento firmata sunt, ut omnium gentium Apostolis,
id est nunciis, penes nos Bulgarorum Apostoli praeponantur,
honorentur, diligantur, (Liutprand in Legatione, p. 482.)
See the Ceremoniale of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, tom. i.
p. 82, tom. ii. p. 429, 430, 434, 435, 443, 444, 446, 447,
with the annotations of Reiske.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 55