Antaeus took a walk, supposing it were but ten
miles, and that he stepped a hundred yards at a
stride, you may try to cipher out how much
mightier he was, on sitting down again, than
when he first started. And whenever he flung
himself on the earth to take a little repose, even
if he got up the very next instant, he would be
as strong as exactly ten just such giants as his
former self. It was well for the world that An-
taeus happened to be of a sluggish disposition,
and liked ease better than exercise; for, if he
had frisked about like the Pygmies, and touched
the earth as often as they did, he would long
ago have been strong enough to pull down the
sky about people's ears. But these great lub-
berly fellows resemble mountains,- not only in
bulk, but in their disinclination to move.

Any other mortal man, except the very one
whom Antaeus had now encountered, would have
been half frightened to death by the Giant's
ferocious aspect and terrible voice. But the
stranger did not seem at all disturbed. He care-
lessly lifted his club, and balanced it in his hand
measuring Antaeus wiCi his eye, from head to
foot, not as if wonder-smitten at his stature, but

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