Tumuli
are found in many parts of the old and new world, and it seems
probable that they were all memorials to the dead. The only surprising
thing in this story is the size of the body; which each man may
explain in his own way. There are various records in antient writers
of enormous bones being found. Those found at Tegea under a smithy,
which were supposed to be the bones of Orestes, were seven cubits long
(Herodotus, i. 68), little more than the ninth part of the dimensions
of Antaeus: but Antaeus was a giant and Orestes was not. See Strabo's
remarks on this story (p. 829).]
[Footnote 128: See Life of Sulla, c. 17. I am not sure that I have
given the right meaning of this passage. Plutarch may mean to say that
he has said so much on this matter in honour of Juba.]
[Footnote 129: I have translated this passage literally and kept the
word daemon, which is the best way of enabling the reader to judge of
the meaning; of the text. If the word "daemon" is here translated
"fortune," it may mislead. A like construction to the words [Greek: to
daimoni summetabalein to ethos] occurs in the Life of Lucullus, c. 39.
The meaning of the whole passage must be considered with reference to
the sense of daemon, which is explained in the notes of the Life of
Sulla, c. 6.]
[Footnote 130: The Lusitani occupied a part of the modern kingdom of
Portugal.]
[Footnote 131: This story of the deer is told by Frontinus
(_Stratagem,_ i.
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