BASILICS were also little chapels built by the ancient Franks over the tombs of their great men, so called, as resembling the figure of the sacred basilicæ or churches. Persons of inferior condition had only tumbe or porticuli erected over them. By an article in the Salic law, he that robbed a tumba or porticulus, was to be fined fifteen solidi; but he that robbed a basilicæ, thirty solidi.