Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Colossus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

COLOS'SUS (κολοσσός). A statue of gigantic dimensions, or very much beyond the proportions of nature; such, for instance, as the Colossus at Rhodes, which was above seventy feet high. Hygin. Fab. 233. Festus, s. v. Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 18.