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Colossus: bronze statue of Apollo of enormous size, one of the seven wonders of the world, reputed to have stood astride the entrance to the harbour of Rhodes, Cæs. I. ii. 135 “he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus” ; hence colossuswise Troil. V. v. 9.
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