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80 for an attempt to betray the Lacedemonians) and Cleonice, is told in Plutarch's life of Cimon; and in the Laconics of Pausanias the Sophist, in his description of Greece.

"That the Sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair," &c.

"There were giants on the earth in those days, and also after that, when the Sons of God came in unto the daughters of men: and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown." Genesis, ch. vi. verses 2 and 4.