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A13792	A true relation of a mighty giant named Theutobocus, sometimes king of the Theutons and Cimbrians, overthrown by Consul Marius 1700 yeares agone buried then by the castle of Langon, neere the towne of Romans in the prouince of Daufiné in Fraunce, whole bones were found of by chaunce, an. 1613, in a place called to this day, The Giants Ground, and vpon his tombe ingrauen in old letters Theutobocus Rex.	Tissot, Jacques.	1615 (1615)	STC 24091.5; ESTC S2933	6,641	18

bones soeuer the water or moisture did touch became as hard as stone therfore as heauy Some are yet naturally light and worme-eaten as commonly olde bones are Some altogether perisht and turned to dust But by the principal peeces that are heere which are no lesse then 200. waight the rest being to heauy to carry easily vp and downe the bones of the thigh and legg sett together being full 9. foote long without neither the foot nor the ioint wherby it may easily be perceiued that what soeuer the others were either Orion of 46. foote or Antheus of 30. this our Giant could be no lesse at the very least then ●6 foot high Which yet doth suffice ouer aboue to rauish with admiration such as shall see those limbs of his For his teeth whereas S. Austen saith he saw one vpon the sea shore at Vtica which was a hundred times greater then any of our common ones I thinke I may concurre to double that number in those we haue 101. hands to show whereupon euery body may imagine what an ouen he had for a mouth what a gulfe for his belly And that I may not longer stand vpon euery peece we haue whereof the beholders shal be more sure content to trust their owne eyes then my describing I le tell you but a word of the thicknes of his vertebres wherby those that haue euen any superficiall skill in Anatomy may easily iudge the whole dimension of our Giant according to the proportion of his legge and thigh aforesaid to haue ben aboue 25. foot euery one of his vertebres being almost half a footlong and the number of them in euery man 28. besides those 5. which are called dissimilitudinary whereupon I durst almost say he was very neere the whole length of the Tombe it selfe But that which is no lesse to be noted then his extraordinary height is his owne name ranck and quality thus found inscribed vpon his Tombe THEVTOBOCVS REX for he indeed was a King or at least one of the Kings of that famous Army of Theutons Tigurines Ambruns and Cimbrians which Marius defeated vpon the borders of Fraunce towards Italy when they were ready to enter and inuade it in the yeare of the foundation of Rome 642 and before the Incarnation of our Sauiour 105. For his name quality and height Florus tells it vs in these few words lib. 3. cap. 3. Certe Rex ipse Theutobocus quaternos senosque equos transilire solitus vix vnum cum f●geret ascendit proximoque in sal●● comprehensus insigne spectaculum triumphi fuit quippe vir proceritatis eximia super ●ropha● opsa●manebat King Theutobocus who was wont to leape ouer 5. or 6. horses did scarce get vp vpon one when he fled away And so being taken in the next wood was a wonderfull ornament to the Triumph for he being a man of an excessiue height was higher then the very trophees for that warr Orosus lib. 5. cap. 16. doth rehearse it a great deale more at length and surely with a great deale more truth then any saying that these Barbarians came with their huge Army to assayle Marius in his owne camp neere the falling of the riuer Lisere into the Rosne with whom hauing had some light skirmishes diuers dayes at last thinking themselues strong enough they diuided their army in three and so went three seuerall wayes wherby Marius took time to dislodge and sett his Campe in a place of more aduantage vpon a little hill commaunding the enemies from which falling to battell he did kill 200000. of them and tooke 8000. prisoners among the rest making mencion of their king which either by error of report or of former scribes or late Printers he calles Theutobodus who saith he did make the victory more glorious by his death As also afterward the very women who seing they could not obtayne from Marius freedome for their bodies and liberty to serue their owne Gods according to their custome after they had killed first their owne children and then the most part one another the rest did hang themselues at their cart-wheeles some with ropes some with their owne hayres I know some will say with Plutarch and Florus that Marius did ouerthrow those Barbariaus in another part of France hard by Aix Marseilles in a Prouince which is farr enough from Daufiné And that the Marsilians did inclose their vines with the bones of those that were the slain so great the discomfiture was But the answere is ready that according to the huge numbers whereof this floud of men was cōpounded Marius did not ouerthrow them all at once by reason also that they had diuided themselues as Orosus saith and that those who were defeated there we but the third part which went that way rowards Italy whome Marius also ouertooke and cut short after he had ouerthrowen these former And although Florus make but one of the ouerthrowes at Marseilles and the death of Theutobocus yet since he himselfe doth specifie the height of that king and we finde him buried in this place it must needes folow he was not killed very farr thence Finally though we had not those strong likelihoods and proofes we knowe that the first part of these Barbarians with their king Theutobocus were defeated not farre from the place where we haue found his Tombe yet the modalls of the stamp hereunder represented that haue ben found therein marking so cleerely Marius being so like to those of the Amphitheator of Oranges all which is also of Marius do show howsoeuer and proue without any difficulty that this our Giant was none els then Theutobocus a King among these Theutons and other Barbarians whom Consul Marius ouerthrew vpon the borders of France either in Daufiné or Prouence brought from wheresoeuer and vpon what soeuer occasions to be buried where we haue found him A true Relation of the Bones of Giants which are to be seene at this day as well in Germany Brabant Flanders Holland Frize as in Italy Lorraine France By I. B. G. THe better to verifie that which we report our Theutobocus of an Almāde race wee will speake a word of the bones of Giants which are found at this day in Germany and elsewhere First in the Citty of Wornes which is thought to be builded by the Giants there is found the tombe of a Giant called Herusfephery or Iephem of the Horne with a certain clouen staffe and a stone wherewith he vsed to salute himselfe the which staffe is as bigg as one could well brace in his armes as long as thirty ordinary paces and the stone fower foote high large downwards ten paces vpward before in the fashion of a piramyd And vnder the Town house there are many bones of diuers sortes of diuers Beasts very huge as also diuers bones of men as the broken bones of the arme and thigh of a Giant which is of the bignesse of a foote round a foote and a halfe in length and that