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    The document defines and provides the origin and history of the word "colossus". It comes from the Latin word "colossus" meaning a giant statue, which came from the Greek word "kolossos". The Greeks first used it to describe giant Egyptian statues and the Romans later used it for the large bronze statue of the sun god Helios at the harbor of Rhodes, called the Colossus of Rhodes. It also provides an example of its figurative usage to describe anything of great size or importance from a passage discussing how the Colossus of Rhodes was one of the few important cults dedicated to Helios and was the largest Greek statue in bronze.

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    The document defines and provides the origin and history of the word "colossus". It comes from the Latin word "colossus" meaning a giant statue, which came from the Greek word "kolossos". The Greeks first used it to describe giant Egyptian statues and the Romans later used it for the large bronze statue of the sun god Helios at the harbor of Rhodes, called the Colossus of Rhodes. It also provides an example of its figurative usage to describe anything of great size or importance from a passage discussing how the Colossus of Rhodes was one of the few important cults dedicated to Helios and was the largest Greek statue in bronze.

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    colossus 

    colossus (n.)
    "gigantic statue," late 14c., from Latin colossus "a statue larger than
    life," from Greek kolossos "gigantic statue," which is of unknown origin.
    The Greek word was used by Herodotus of giant Egyptian statues and
    by Romans of the bronze Helios at the entrance to the harbor of
    Rhodes. Figurative sense of "any thing of awesome greatness or
    vastness" is from 1794.

    Helios, the sun, is a god everywhere; there was a scandal when


    Anaxagoras dared to call him a glowing clod. But the island of
    Rhodes is almost the only place where Helios enjoys an important
    cult; ... the largest Greek statue in bronze, the Colossus of Rhodes,
    is a representation of Helios. [Walter Burkert, "Greek Religion"]

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