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be pledged and pawned for the warrantife, or to countervaile the worth therec#: Order therefore 
was given by theftate, and the fame obferved from time to time, that the fextens or wardens of 
the faid chappell fhould perfourmethe fafetie and forth-comming of it under paine of death. 
As touching the bold and venturous peeces.of worke that have been perfourmed and fint- 
fhed by this art,we have an infinitnumber of {uch examples: for we fee what huge and gyanclike 
images they have devifed to make in brafle,relembling high towres more like than pettonages, 
and {uch they called Colofli. Of this kindistheimage of 4pollo within the Capitoll, tranfpot= 
ted by 44, Lucullus out of Apollonia, acittie within the kingdome of Pontus, which in heigth 
was thittie cubits, and coft a hundred and fiftie talents the making. Such another is that of dnpi- 
ter within Mars field, dedicated by Clazdius Cafar the Emperout, which becaute it flandeth fo 
neare unto Porapeys theatre,men commonly call Jupiter Pormpeiani and full as big heisas Apel- 
loabovenamed, Like unto thefe,is thecoloffe or flately image[of Hercules] at Larentum, the 
handiwerke of thefaid Zy/ippus, buthe is fortie cubits high :and miraculous is the devife of this 
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coloffe,if ir be true which is commonly reported thereof, namely, thata man may moove and 
ftirre iceafily with his hand, fo truly balanced it ftanderh and equally counterpoifed by Geome- 
trie; and yet no wind, no {tore or tempelt, is able to {hake tt, Certes itis faid,that the worke- 
man hinfelfe Ly//ppws, provided well for thisdaunger, in that a prettie way off hee reared aco- 
Jumac or pillar of ftonefull oppofit to the winds mouth, for to breake the force andrage there- 
of,from that fidewhere it was like to blow and beat moft upon the colofie: and verely fo huge ie 
was to weld, and fo hard to be remooved, that Fadivs {urnamed Verrucofus, dart nor meddle 
withal], but was forced to let icalone and leave it behind him; notwithf{tanding he brought with 
‘him froia thence another Hereles, which now Randeth within the Capicoll . Buc the colofle of 
the Sun which ftood at Rhodes,and was wrought by Cares of Lyndus,apprentice to the above- | 
‘named Zy/ippzs,was above all others moft admirable; for it carried feventie cubits in heigth: * rest: faith 
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well, as mightie an image asit was, itftood noton end above threefcore yeersand fixsforinan oo a 
earthquake thatthen happened, it was overthrowne: but lying as it doth along, a woondertull pearech thata 
and prodigious thing itis toviewand behold: forfirtand foremoft, the thumbs of the hand cubit was one 
Wis ae foot & a halte. 
and great toes of the foot are fo big, as few men are ableto fadome one of themabout:thefin- oo ae 
gers and toes are bigger than the moft part of orher whole flatues and images: and looke where workeman en- 
any of the members or lims were broken with the fall,a man that fawthem would fay they were stavs¢under 
) : beet itthis Hypo-' 
broad holes and huge cavesin the ground :for within thefe fractures and breaches, you fhall {€€ gram in Jam= 
monftrous big ftones, which the workeman atthe firft rearing and fetting of it had conchedar- bicke verfe 
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tificially within, for toftrengthen the coloffe, that ftanding firme and uptight fo ballaifed, 1 Je sey, 
might checke the violence of wind and weather. Twelve yeeres (they fay) Cares wasin making xepis init mim 
of it before hee could fully finifh it, and the bare workinauthip cott three hundred talents: This °° 404 
‘mony was raifed out of K. Demectriws his provifion which he bad fet by for that purpofe, and paid 
froin time to time by his officers, for that hee would nothimfelfe enduré to ftayto long for the 
workemanthip thereof. Other images there are befides of the nature of coloflesin thefamecit- 
tie of Rhodesto the number of one hundred, Jefler indeed than the forefaid coloffe of the Surry 
yetthere is not one of them, but forthe bignefie were fufficient to give aname to the placeand 
ennoble it, wherefoever it fliould ftand,Over and above,there bee inthe faid citie five other gy- 
antlike images or coloffes reprefenting {ome gods,and thofe of an huge bignefie,which were o 
Bryaxes his making. Thus much of workemen flraungers, | “a 
And tocome fomewhatnearer home : weeltalians alfo have praftifed to make fuch coloffes, 
for furely we may fee (and goe nofarther than to the librarie belonging to the temple of Augu- 
fi Cafar herein Rome)a iufcancolofle madetor Apollo, and the fame isfiltie foot high from 
tiie great toc upward : but the bigneffe thereof is not{o muchas the matter and workemanthip : 
for hard it is to fay,whether is more admirable, the beautifull feature of the bodie,or the exqui- 
fir cemperature or the mettall, Moreover, Sp. Carvilivs long agoe madethe great image of Ju- 
pater wich ftandeth in the Capitol] hill, after the Samnites were vanquithed in that daungerous 
warte ,whereinthey bound themfelves bya facred law and oth to fight it out to the laft man, un- 
der paine of deachtoas many as {eemed toturne backe or once recule; tothe making whereof, 
hee tooke the brafen cuiraces, greives, and morions of the enemies that lay dead and {laine 
uponihe ground : which is{o exceeding bigg and large, that hee may verie plainely and evi- 
dently bee difcovered and feene from the other Zegiter in Latium, called therefore Latiarivs. 
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