[397:2] Boldonius' Epigraphs. Quoted in Ibid.
[397:3] See Bell's Pantheon, vol. ii. p. 237. Taylor's Diegesis, p. 48, and Middleton's Letters from Rome.
[397:4] Baring-Gould's Curious Myths, p. 428.
[398:1] Mosheim, Cent. ii. p. 202. Quoted in Taylor's Diegesis, p. 48.
[398:2] Draper: Religion and Science, pp. 48, 49.
[398:3] Middleton's Letters from Rome, p. 84.
[399:1] See Higgins' Anacalypsis.
[399:2] Jones on the Canon, vol. i. p. 11. Diegesis, p. 49.
[399:3] Compare "Apollo among the Muses," and "The Vine and its Branches" (that is, Christ Jesus and his Disciples), in Lundy's Monumental Christianity, pp. 141-143. As Mr. Lundy says, there is so striking a resemblance between the two, that one looks very much like a copy of the other. Apollo is also represented as the "Good Shepherd," with a lamb upon his back, just exactly as Christ Jesus is represented in Christian Art. (See Lundy's Monumental Christianity, and Jameson's Hist. of Our Lord in Art.)
[399:4] The Roman god Jonas, or Janus, with his keys, was changed into Peter, who was surnamed Bar-Jonas. Many years ago a statue of the god Janus, in bronze, being found in Rome, he was perched up in St. Peter's with his keys in his hand: the very identical god, in all his native ugliness. This statue sits as St. Peter, under the cupola of the church of St. Peter. It is looked upon with the most profound veneration: the toes are nearly kissed away by devotees.