[Footnote 120: Invidiam tamen suscepti nominis (C. P.
imperatoribus super hoc indignantibus) magna tulit
patientia, vicitque eorum contumaciam ... mittendo ad eos
crebras legationes, et in epistolis fratres eos appellando.
Eginhard, c. 28, p. 128. Perhaps it was on their account
that, like Augustus, he affected some reluctance to receive
the empire.]