[Footnote 18: See Leandro Alberti (Descrizione d'Italia, p.
250) and Baronius, (A.D. 493, No. 43.) If the archangel
inherited the temple and oracle, perhaps the cavern, of old
Calchas the soothsayer, (Strab. Geograph l. vi. p. 435,
436,) the Catholics (on this occasion) have surpassed the
Greeks in the elegance of their superstition.]