To which Don Quixote made answer: "The tombs of the heathens were generally sumptuous temples; the ashes of Julius Caesar's body were placed on the top of a stone pyramid of vast size, which they now call in Rome Saint Peter's needle. The emperor Hadrian had for a tomb a castle as large as a good-sized village, which they called the Moles Adriani, and is now the castle of St. Angelo in Rome. The queen Artemisia buried her husband Mausolus in a tomb which was reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world; but none of these tombs, or of the many others of the heathens, were ornamented with winding-sheets or any of those other offerings and tokens that show that they who are buried there are saints."
A lo que respondió don Quijote: -Los sepulcros de los gentiles fueron por la mayor parte suntuosos templos: las cenizas del cuerpo de Julio César se pusieron sobre una pirámide de piedra de desmesurada grandeza, a quien hoy llaman en Roma La aguja de San Pedro; al emperador Adriano le sirvió de sepultura un castillo tan grande como una buena aldea, a quien llamaron Moles Hadriani, que agora es el castillo de Santángel en Roma; la reina Artemisa sepultó a su marido Mausoleo en un sepulcro que se tuvo por una de las siete maravillas del mundo; pero ninguna destas sepulturas ni otras muchas que tuvieron los gentiles se adornaron con mortajas ni con otras ofrendas y señales que mostrasen ser santos los que en ellas estaban sepultados.