[156] Eph. v. 28, 29.
[157] C. Faustum. Man. xii. c. 9.
[158] Gen. iv. 17.
[159] Gen. iv. 25.
[160] Lamech, according to the LXX.
[161] Ex. xii. 37.
[162] Virgil, Æneid, xii. 899, 900. Compare the Iliad, v. 302, and Juvenal, xv. 65 et seqq.
"Terra malos homines nunc educat atque pusillos."
[163] Plin. Hist. Nat. vii. 16.
[164] See the account given by Herodotus (i. 67) of the discovery of the bones of Orestes, which, as the story goes, gave a stature of seven cubits.