CŎLOSSUS

( κολοσσός ) is used both by the Greeks and Romans to signify a statue larger than life; but as such statues were very common, the word was more frequently applied to designate figures of gigantic dimensions. Such figures were first executed in Egypt, and were afterwards made by the Greeks and Romans. Among the colo al statues of Greece, the most celebrated was the bronze colo us at Rhodes, dedicated to the sun, the height of which was about 90 feet. IMG:6459379820872971714_ill101.jpg: Colum. (Museo Borbonico, vol. viii. pl. 14.)