Quam Satyri coluere leves, redimitaque sacrâ
Nebride.
The Priests at the Bacchanalia, as well as the Votaries, were habited in this manner.
[[37]]Inter matres impia Mænas
Comes Ogygio venit Iaccho,
Nebride sacrâ præcincta latus.
Statius describes them in the same habit.
[[38]]Hic chelyn, hic flavam maculoso Nebrida tergo,
Hic thyrsos, hic plectra ferit.
The history of Nimrod was, in great measure, lost in the superior reverence shewn to Chus, or Bacchus: yet, there is reason to think, that divine honours were of old paid to him. The family of the Nebridæ at [[39]]Athens, and another of the same name at Cos, were, as we may infer from their history, the posterity of people, who had been priests to Nimrod. He seems to have been worshipped in Sicily under the names of Elorus, Belorus, and Orion. He was likewise styled [[40]]Belus: but as this was merely a title, and conferred upon other persons, it renders his history very difficult to be distinguished.