Josephus,  b.  v.  chap.  2,  of  his  ancient  history:  *'  There  re-
mains to  this  day  some  of  the  race  of  the  giants,  who  by  reason
of  the  bulk  and  figure  of  their  bodies,  so  different  from  other
men,  are  wonderful  to  see  or  hear  of.  Their  bones  are  now  shown
far  exceeding  the  belief  of  the  vulgar."  Gabinius,  in  his  history
of  Mauritania,  said  that  Antteus's  bones  were  found  by  Sertorius,
which,  joined  together,  were  sixty  cubits  long.  Phlegon  Tral-
lianus,  in  his  9th  chap,  of  Wonders,  mentions  the  digging  up  the
head  of  Ida,  which  was  three  times  as  big  as  that  of  an  ordinary
woman.  And  he  adds  also  that  there  were  many  bodies  found  in
Dalmatia,  whose  arms  exceeded  sixteen  cubits.  And  the  same
man  relates  out  of  Tlieopompus,  that  there  were  found  in  the
Cimmerian  Bosphorus  a  company  of  human  bones  twenty-four
cubits  in  length.  Le  Clerk's  Notes  on  Grotius  de  Veritat.  b.  i.
sect.  16.
We  almost  every  where  in  the  Greek  and  Latin  historians  meet
with  the  savage  life  of  the  giants  mentioned  by  Moses.  In  the
Greek,  as  Homer,  Iliad  9th,  and  Hesiod,  in  his  Works  and  Days.
To  this  may  be  referred  the  Wars  of  the  Gods  mentioned  by  Pla-
to in  his  Second  Republic,  and  those  distinct  and  separate  govern-
ments taken  notice  of  by  the  same  Plato,  in  his  third  book  of
Laws.  And  as  to  the  Latin  historians,  see  the  first  book  of  Ovid's
Metamorphoses,  and  the  fourth  book  of  Lucan,  and  Seneca's  third
book  of  Natural  Questions,  Quest.  30,  where  he  says  concerning
the  Deluge,  "  that  the  beasts  also  perished,  into  whose  nature
men  were  degenerated."     Grotius  de  Verit.   b.  i.  sect.  16.
