My former superiors in command either envied me, or wished to remain on the same terms of intercourse as formerly.

But this would have been inconsistent with my new position, and have undermined my authority.

One day, therefore, when the officers of the host were at one of my banquets and attempting, as usual, to maintain their old convivial footing, I showed them the golden basin in which their feet had been washed before sitting down to meat; five days later, as they were again drinking at one of my revels, I caused a golden image of the great god Ra be placed upon the richly-ornamented banqueting-table.
[Ra, with the masculine article Phra, must be regarded as the central point of the sun-worship of the Egyptians, which we consider to have been the foundation of their entire religion.

He was more especially worshipped at Heliopolis.

Plato, Eudoxus, and probably Pythagoras also, profited by the teaching of his priests.