6. What can you say
as to this, that it is attested by the writings of authors, that many
of these temples which have been raised with golden domes and lofty
roofs cover bones and ashes, and are sepulchres of the dead? Is
it not plain and manifest, either that you worship dead men for
immortal gods, or that an inexpiable affront is cast upon the deities,
whose shrines and temples have been built over the tombs of the
dead? Antiochus,4597
| 4597
A Syracusan historian. The rest of the chapter is almost
literally translated from Clement, who is followed by Eusebius also
(Præp. Evang., ii. 6). [See vol. ii. p. 184, this
series.] |
in the ninth
book of his
Histories, relates that Cecrops was buried in the
temple of
Minerva,
4598
| 4598
i.e., the Acropolis. |
at Athens;
again, in the
temple of the same
goddess, which is in the citadel of
Larissa,
4599
| 4599 In
Thessaly, whither (acc. to Pausanias) he had fled in vain, to avoid the
fulfillment of the oracle that he should be killed by his
daughter’s son. |
it is related
and declared that Acrisius was laid,
and in the
sanctuary of
Polias,
4600
| 4600
i.e., Athena Polias, or guardian of cities. Immediately
below, the ms. reads Immarnachus,
corrected in LB. and Orelli Immarus from Clem., who speaks of
“Immarus, son of Eumolpus and Dæira.” |
Erichthonius;
while the
brothers Dairas and Immarnachus
were
buried in the enclosure of Eleusin, which
lies near the
city. What say you as to the
virgin daughters of Celeus? are they
not said to be buried
4601
| 4601
So the unintelligible reading of the ms., humation-ibus officia, was emended by
Heraldus, followed by LB. and Orelli, is habuisse. |
in the
temple of Ceres at Eleusin?
and in the
shrine of
Diana,
which was set up in the
temple of the Delian Apollo, are not Hyperoche
and Laodice buried, who are said to have been brought thither from the
country of the Hyperboreans? In the Milesian
Didymæon,
4602
| 4602
i.e., the temple near Didyma, sacred to Apollo, who was worshipped then
under the name Didymus. |
Leandrius
says that Cleochus had the last honours of
burial paid to him.
Zeno of Myndus openly relates that the monument of Leucophryne is in
the
sanctuary of
Diana at Magnesia. Under the
altar of Apollo,
which is seen in the city of Telmessus, is it not invariably declared by
writings that the
prophet Telmessus
lies buried? Ptolemæus,
the son of Agesarchus, in the first book of the
History of
Philopator4603
which he
published, affirms, on the
authority of literature, that Cinyras, king
of Paphos, was interred in the
temple of Venus with all his
family,
nay, more, with all his stock. It would be
4604
an
endless and boundless task to
describe in what sanctuaries they all are throughout the
world; nor is
anxious care required, although
4605
| 4605
So the ms., both Rom. edd., Hild., and
Oehler, reading quamvis pœnam; Gelenius, Canterus,
Elm., and Oberthür omit vis, and the other edd. v,
i.e., “as to what punishment the Egyptian,” etc. This
must refer to the cases in which the sacred bull, having outlived the
term of twenty-five years, was secretly killed by the priests, while
the people were taught that it had thrown itself into the water. |
the Egyptians
fixed a penalty for any one
who should have revealed the places in which Apis lay hid, as to those
Polyandria4606
| 4606
i.e., “burial-places.” By this Oehler has attempted
to show is meant the Hebdomades vel de Imaginibus of Varro, a
series of biographical sketches illustrated with portraits, executed in
some way which cannot be clearly ascertained. |
of
Varro,
4607
by what
temples they are covered, and what heavy masses they have laid upon
them.
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