The colossus of Rhodes.
“Yet fain wouldst thou the crouching world bestride
Just like the Rhodian bully oʹer the tide.”
Peter Pindar: The Lusiad, canto 2.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.