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1. A son of Poseidon and Ge, a mighty giant and wrestler in Libya, whose strength was
invincible so long as he remained in contact with his mother earth. The strangers who came to
his country were compelled to wrestle with him; the conquered were slain, and out of their
skulls he built a house to Poseidon. Heracles discovered the source of his strength, lifted
him up from the earth, and crushed him in the air. (Isthm. 4.87, &c.; Lucan, Pharsal. 4.590, &c.; Ib. 397.) The tomb of Antaeus (Antaei collis), which formed a
moderate hill in the shape of a man stretched out at full length, was shewn near the town of
Tingis in Mauretania down to a late period (l.c.;