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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_102403" /> == | |||
<p> '''(1):''' (n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the [[Colossus]] of [[Nero]] in Rome, the Colossus of [[Apollo]] at Rhodes. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) Any man or beast of gigantic size. </p> | |||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_71346" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_71346" /> == | ||
<p> Any gigantic statue, specially one of | <p> Any gigantic statue, specially one of Apollo in bronze, 120 ft. high, astride over the mouth of the harbour at Rhodes, reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world, erected in 280 B.C., destroyed by an earthquake 56 years after, and sold to a Jew centuries later for old metal; besides this are celebrated the statue of [[Memnon]] at Thebes, the Colossi of Athene in the [[Parthenon]] at Athens, and of [[Zeus]] at [[Olympia]] and at Tarentum, as well as others of modern date; for instance, Germania, 112 ft. high, in the Niederwald, and [[Liberty]] enlightening the World, 160 ft. high, in New York harbour. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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<ref name="term_102403"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/webster-s-dictionary/colossus Colossus from Webster's Dictionary]</ref> | |||
<ref name="term_71346"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/colossus Colossus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_71346"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/colossus Colossus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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