Arnobius

“ 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, [1] in the ninth book of his Histories, relates that Cecrops was buried in the temple of Minerva, [2] at Athens; again, in the temple of the same goddess, which is in the citadel of Larissa, [3] it is related and declared that Acrisius was laid, and in the sanctuary of Polias, [4] Erichthonius ”