Note 105
From Chapter 23 of the Decline & Fall

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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