[Footnote 159: Religio Romana ...nec precibus patrum nec
miraculis ab ipsis editis suffulciebatur, is the
uncontradicted assurance of the devout emperor Susneus to
his patriarch Mendez, (Ludolph. Comment. No. 126, p. 529;)
and such assurances should be preciously kept, as an
antidote against any marvellous legends.]