Note 642 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
The following inscription from Gruter indicates this practice:
QVISQVE · HVIC · TVMVLO POSVIT · ARDENTEM · LVCERNAM ILLIVS · CINERES · AVREA · TERRA · TEGAT.
“Who ever places a burning lamp before this tomb, may a golden soil cover his ashes.”
Lactantius accuses the pagans of burning lights to God as to one living in darkness, (Institut. Divin., lib. vi, cap. 2,) and the Theodosian Code forbids the custom.