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The damsels sent by the Hyperboreans died in Delos; and in their
honour all the Delian girls and youths are wont to cut off their hair.
The girls, before their marriage-day, cut off a curl, and twining
it round a distaff, lay it upon the grave of the strangers. This
grave is on the left as one enters the precinct of Diana, and has an
olive-tree growing on it. The youths wind some of their hair round a
kind of grass, and, like the girls, place it upon the tomb. Such
are the honours paid to these damsels by the Delians.
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