[Footnote 111: Liutprand, whose choleric temper was
imbittered 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.]