Note 105 Simulacrum in eo Olympiaci Jovis imitamenti aequiparans magnitudinem. Ammian. xxii 13. The Olympic Jupiter was sixty feet high, and his bulk was consequently equal to that of a thousand men. See a curious Memoire of the Abbe Gedoyn (Academie des Inscriptions, tom. ix. p. 198.)

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire— Chapter 23