Compescuit tale consilium Pontifex, sperans
conversionem principis, (Anastas. p. 156.) Sed ne
desisterent ab amore et fide R. J. admonebat, (p. 157.)
The popes style Leo and Constantine Copronymus, Imperatores et Domini, with the strange epithet of Piissimi. A famous Mosaic of the Lateran (A.D. 798) represents Christ, who delivers the keys to St. Peter and the banner to Constantine V. (Muratori, Annali d'Italia, tom. vi. p. 337.)