These are the same with _Larvæ_, which the Antients imagined to wander round the World, to frighten good People, and plague the bad. All these were imagin’d to be the Ghosts of the Dead: They pray’d to the Good for Protection, and sacrificed to the Evil to pacify their Rage: For this reason they had their _Lemuria_ or _Lemuralia_ at _Rome_, where on the 9th of _May_, a Feast was solemnized in honour of the _Lemures_, and to pacify the _Manes_ of the Dead, especially those who died without Burial, to prevent their giving disturbance to the Living. The first _Men_ that were _deified_, or made Gods, are supposed to be the Heads of Families, Founders of Empires, and Benefactors of Provinces——who, after their decease, were highly reverenced. _Noah_ and his Sons seem to be the first and chief animated Deities of the Pagans, under the Names of _Saturn_, _Jupiter_, _Neptune_ and _Pluto_; hence _Demons_, another Name given to Spirits, which were supposed to appear to Mortals, with intention to do them Good or Hurt. The first Notion of Demons, ’tis said, sprung from _Chaldea_, thence it spread among the _Persians_, _Egyptians_.... _Pythagoras_ and _Thales_ were the first that introduced _Demons_ into _Greece_, where _Plato_ fell in with the Notion, which he explains thus, _viz._ ... By _Demons_, he understood Spirits inferior to Gods, and yet superior to Men, which inhabiting the middle Region of the Air, kept up the Communication between the Gods and Men, carrying up the _Prayers_ and Offerings of Men to the Gods, and bringing down the _Will_ of the Gods to Men. He allow’d of none but good ones, tho’ his Disciples (finding themselves unable to account for the Origin of Evil) adopted another kind of Demons, who were Enemies to Man[373]. Footnote 373: _Gale_’s _Court of the Gentiles_, part I. chap. viii. The Apocryphal Book of _Enoch_ abounds with the Names of Angels and Devils; but that Book is not of any great Antiquity, tho’ the Prophecy be: it does not appear to have been known by the antient _Jews_. St. _Jude_ is the first that cited it. The Authority which this spurious Book of _Enoch_ has received from some of the Antients, is the reason of our meeting with several of its Opinions, scatter’d in their Writings. _Ibid._ _LACTANTIUS_, one of the most eloquent Authors of his time, (and therefore called the _Christian Cicero_) was of Opinion there were two sorts of Demons, celestial and terrestrial[374]: The _celestial_ are the fallen Angels, who having been seduced by the Prince of Devils, engaged themselves in impure Amours; the _terrestrial_ are they who issued from the former, as Children from their Parents: These last, who are neither Men nor Angels, but a Medium between the two Natures; were not plunged into Hell, neither were their Fathers admitted into Heaven: The terrestrial Angels are impure Spirits, and Authors of all the Evils committed on Earth[375]. Footnote 374: