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 in what manner to venerate the gods, and was the firt who intituted certain rites of religion; he alo inftructed them to make tables, and to erect beds, and to cloath themelves in precious garments, and was in short the first mater of umptuoity, luxury, and magnificence. Many ages, after him reigned Gnephachtus—the father of Bocchoris the Wife.—This monarch having led his army into Arabia, was reduced to the greatest extremity for want of provisions on account of the barrennes and difficulty of the place, and even he himelf was obliged, for the space of one day, to feed upon the vulgar fare which chance upplied. But the prince was o much delighted with this imple food, that he pronounced an anathema againt luxury,