King of Halicarnassus for whom was built the vast tomb at his city — so notable for its ornament that the Romans call every great tomb a Mausoleum.1
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Pausanias, naming the most wonderful graves he knew, singles out the monument at Halicarnassus made for Mausolus, king of the city — of such vast size and ornament that Roman admiration gave his name to every remarkable tomb in their country.2
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Hyginus counts the monument of King Mausolus among the Seven Wonders of the World — a marble structure eighty feet high and thirteen hundred and forty feet around.3
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