[Footnote 52: See this most extraordinary letter in the
Codex Carolinus, epist iii. p. 92. The enemies of the popes
have charged them with fraud and blasphemy; yet they surely
meant to persuade rather than deceive. This introduction of
the dead, or of immortals, was familiar to the ancient
orators, though it is executed on this occasion in the rude
fashion of the age.]