Cossutius

• name of a Roman gens, Suet. Caes. 1; Vitr. 7, pr. 15 al.

a Roman knight, a man of the greatest respectability and integrity, who lived in Sicily during the administration of Verres, and defended Xeno before the latter. (Cic. Ver. 3.22, 80.)

a Roman architect, who rebuilt at the expense of Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria the temple of the Olympian Zeus at Athens, about B. C. 168, in the most magnificent Corinthian style. The temple, however, in its present form, which had been deprived of its pillars by Sulla, was finished by Hadrian. (Vitruv. Praef vii.; Liv. 41.20; Vell. 1.10; Athen. 5.189a.; Strab. ix. p.396; Plin. Nat. 36.5; Jacobs, Amalth. ii. p. 249; Böckh, Corp. Inscr. i. n. 362, 363.) [L.U]

A Roman architect who rebuilt, at the expense of Antiochus Epiphanes, the temple of the Olympian Zeus at Athens, about B.C. 168. See Reber, Hist. of Ancient Art, p. 249 (Eng. trans., N. Y. 1882).