Gaius Plinius Secundus, HN  34.18.40  (ca. A.D. 65): Audaciae innumera sunt exempla. Moles quippe excogitatas videmus statuarum, quas colossaeas vocant, turribus pares. Talis est in Capitolio Apollo, tralatus a M. Lucullo ex Apollonia Ponti urbe, xxx cubitorum, D talentis factus; talis in campo Martio Iuppiter, a Claudio Caesare dicatus, qui devoratur Pompeiani theatri vicinitate; talis et Tarenti factus a Lysippo, XL cubitorum. Of boldness of design the examples are innumerable. We see enormously huge statues devised, what are called Colossi, as large as towers. Such is the Apollo on the Capitol, brought over by Marcus Lucullus from Apollonia, a city of Pontus, 45 ft. high, which cost 500 talents to make; or the Jupiter which Emperor Claudius dedicated in the Campus Martius, which is dwarfed by the proximity of the theater of Pompeius; or the 60 ft. high statue at Taranto made by Lysippus. (H. Rackham, trans.)