the Gods who inhabited them became Demi∣Gods, and the Goddess Urania was condemned to live in the moon; she now enjoyed only a borrowed light, was cloathed with an aerial and transparent body which the Greeks call the subtile vehicle of the soul; she no longer breathed as formerly the pure a∣ether, which made her life and nourishment; she liv∣ed upon nectar and ambrosia with the Demi Gods, whom she had drawn after her in her fall. Adonis ever faithful and ever loving descended into the sun to be nearer to his beloved Urania; he took the name of Apollo and tried new means to make her sensible of her fault: sometimes she was softened, she yielded to the sun's attraction, and brought her silver car near his rays; then on a sudden she chan∣ged her sentiments and wandered from him: she be∣came inconstant and fantastical, she put on new forms according as she retired from her lover or approach∣ed to him; she at length gave way to her ambition, and made the inhabitants of the planets adore her under the name ofQuid Urania nisi coeli Regina, Luna, Astarte. Vid. Selden. de Diis Syris. cap. 2. syntag. 2. See Apul. Met. II. Astarte or the Queen of heaven.By the laws of immutable fate it was necessary that the Goddess should undergo a new metamor∣phosis, as a punishment for her new crime: she fell from the moon to the earth, and took the name of Venus. The inhabitants of the planets did not all follow her example, she seduced but a small number of them, and these Demi-Gods became men, but men of the golden age, they were not yet guilty of gross crimes, they still preserved some marks of their origi∣nal nature. The Goddess by changing her element changed her food, instead of ambrosia she fed only upon fruits, instead of drinking nectar she quenched her thirst in limpid streams and clear fountains; she 0