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The other Colossus of Rome was equal to that of Juno at Argos.
So he dedicated the city to the province, and the haven to the sailors there; but the honor of the building he ascribed to Caesar, [34] and named it Cesarea accordingly. 8.
He also built the other edifices, the amphitheater, and theater, and market-place, in a manner agreeable to that denomination; and appointed games every fifth year, and called them, in like manner, Caesar's Games; and he first himself proposed the largest prizes upon the hundred ninety-second olympiad; in which not only the victors themselves, but those that came next to them, and even those that came in the third place, were partakers of his royal bounty.
He also rebuilt Anthedon, a city that lay on the coast, and had been demolished in the wars, and named it Agrippeum.
Moreover, he had so very great a kindness for his friend Agrippa, that he had his name engraved upon that gate which he had himself erected in the temple. 9.
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