68. Invenimus mira magnitudinis viros duos, ut prisca aetas
ferebat, tom. ii. Epist. xxii. p. 875. The size of these
skeletons was fortunately, or skilfully, suited to the
popular prejudice of the gradual decrease of the human
stature, which has prevailed in every age since the time of
Homer.
Grandiaque effossis mirabitur ossa sepulchris.