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Concerning these colossal figures and the sacred cow, there is also
another tale narrated, which runs thus: "Mycerinus was enamoured of
his daughter, and offered her violence - the damsel for grief hanged
herself, and Mycerinus entombed her in the cow. Then her mother cut
off the hands of all her tiring - maids, because they had sided with
the father, and betrayed the child; and so the statues of the maids
have no hands." All this is mere fable in my judgment, especially
what is said about the hands of the colossal statues. I could plainly
see that the figures had only lost their hands through the effect of
time. They had dropped off, and were still lying on the ground about
the feet of the statues.
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