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Definition of Colossuses
1. colossus [n] - See also: colossus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colossuses
Literary usage of Colossuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus (1904)
"that was spacious, and showing me wooden colossuses to the number I have mentioned,
they reckoned them up; for every high priest places an image of himself ..."
2. Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a by Herodotus, Henry Cary, Johann Christian Felix Bähr (1852)
"Conducting me into the interior of an edifice that was spacious, and showing me
wooden colossuses to the number I have mentioned, they reckoned them up; ..."
3. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by Herodotus, Thomas Gaisford, Peter Edmund Laurent (1846)
"... and reckoned up, one by one, accurately, a number of wooden colossuses which
they shewed me: for every high priest there sets up the image of himself in ..."
4. History of Art by Elie Faure (1921)
"At this moment everything is possible to the sculptor-geometer. One does not know
whether he cuts the rocks into colossuses or whether he gives to the ..."
5. Ancient History: From the Remotest Times to the Overthrow of the Western by Leonhard Schmitz (1898)
"Travellers are inexhaustible in their admiration of the gigantic masses of ruins,
of the temples, avenues of columns, obelisks, colossuses and catacombs, ..."
6. Colossal Fortunes: Or, A New Plan Progressive Taxation by Charles M. Howell (1888)
"The impoverishment of scores, hundreds, and cven thousands of families is nothing
in the opinion of the money colossuses of the country when it is to their ..."
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