Temple, n.

TEMPLE, n. a marble edifice, a veined edifice; the seat or summit of reason.

While they were bewailing the fate of their fellow countrymen, that old cottage of theirs, too little for even two owners, was changed into a TEMPLE. Columns took the place of forked stakes, the thatch grew yellow, and the earth was covered with marble; the doors appeared carved, and the roof to be of gold.

Philemon and Baucis (The Metamorphoses), Ovid