FROM THE CIRCASSIAN FRONTIER, 
the certainty that it was also a place of religious 
worship : 
“ Et tot templa DcAm Rortur, quot in urbe Sepulchra 
Hcroum numcrare licet.*’- 1 
The sanctity of the Acropolis of Athens owed 
its origin to the sepulchre of Cecrops : and without 
this leading cause of veneration, the numerous 
temples by which it was afterwards adorned 
would never have been erected. The same may 
be said of the Temple of Venus at Paphos, built 
over the tomb of Cinyras, the father of Adonis ; 
of Apollo Didymeeus, at Miletus, over the grave of 
Cleomachus ; with many others, alluded to both 
by Eusebius 9 and by Clemens Alexandrinus\ On 
this account, antient authors make use of such 
words for the temples of the Gods as, in their 
original and proper signification, imply nothing 
more than a tomb or a sepulchre. In this sense, 
Lycophron \ who affects obsolete terms, uses 
TYMB02; and Virgil'’ , TVMVLVS. It has been 
deemed right to state these few observations, 
because there is no part of antient history liable 
to greater misrepresentation, than that which re- 
lates to the origin of temples : neither is it possible 
(l) Prudentius, lib. i. (2) Praep. Evang. lib. ii. c. 6. 
(3) Cohortatio ad Gent. 3. (4) Lycophr. Cassand. v. 613. 
(b) “ Tumulum antiquse Cereris, sederaque sncratam, 
Venimus.” — lib. ii. c. 742. 
