received benefit from the teaching of Moses, and forbade the Romans to make an image of God in the shape of man or any animal. So in the first hundred and seventy years, though they built themselves temples, they made no image, neither in sculpture nor yet in painting. ‘For Numa used to teach them in secret, that it was not possible for the Perfect Good to be reached by language, but only by the mind.’ Further than this, in what follows below, he speaks thus: [d] *‘But most plainly does Megasthenes,