s and put the rest to flight.
At another time during the night he transported from the village of
Gaza enormous burdens and placed them on the top of a mountain.
Betrayed by Delilah, he was delivered into the hands of his enemies and
employed in the most servile labors. When old and blind he was attached
to the columns of an edifice to serve as an object of public ridicule;
with a violent effort he overturned the columns, destroying himself and
3000 Philistines.

In the Greek mythology we find a great number of heroes, celebrated for
their feats of strength and endurance. Many of them have received the
name of Hercules; but the most common of these is the hero who was
supposed to be the son of Jupiter and Alemena. He was endowed with
prodigious strength by his father, and was pursued with unrelenting
hatred by Juno. In his infancy he killed with his hands the serpents
which were sent to devour him. The legends about him are innumerable.
He was said to have been armed with a massive club, which only he was
able to carry. The most famous of his feats were the twelve labors,
with which all readers of mythology are familiar. Hercules,
personified, meant to the Greeks physical force as well as strength,
generosity, and bravery, and was equivalent to the Assyrian Hercules.
The Gauls had a Hercules-Pantopage, who, in addition to the ordinary
qualities attributed to Hercules, had an enormous appetite.

As late as the sixteenth century, and in a most amusing and picturesque
manner, Rabelais has given us the history of Gargantua, and even to
this day, in some regions, there are groups of stones which are
believed by ignorant people to have been thrown about by Gargantua in
his play. In their citations the older authors often speak of battles,
and in epic ballads of heroes with marvelous strength. In the army of
Charlemagne, after Camerarius, and quoted by Guyot-Daubes (who has made
an extensive collection of the literature on this subject and to whom
the authors are indebted for much information), there was found a giant
named Oenother, a native of a village in Suabia, who performed
marvelous feats of strength. In his history of Bavaria Aventin speaks
of this monster. To Roland, the nephew of Charlemagne, the legends
attributed prodigious strength; and, dying in the valley of
Roncesveaux, he broke his good sword "Durandal" by striking it against
a rock, making a breach, which is stilled called the "Breche de
Roland." Three yea