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But they, when they reached the place where Achilles pointed out to them, laid him down; and immediately heaped on abundant wood for him. Then again swift-footed Achilles remembered another thing. Standing apart from the pile, he cut off his yellow hair, which he had nurtured, blooming, for the river Sperchius;[734] and, moaning, he spake, looking upon the dark sea:

[Footnote 734: On this custom, cf. Schol. Hesiod's Theogony 348: [Greek: Apolloni kai potamois oi neoi apetemon tas komas, dia to auxeseos kai anatrophes aitious einai]. See Lindenbrog on Censorin. de Die Nat. i. p. 6, and Blomf. on Aesch. Choeph. s. init., with my own note. Statius, Achill. i. 628, "Quaerisne meos, Sperchie, natatus, Promissasque comas?" Cf. Pausan. i. 43, 4; Philostrat. Her. xi.]

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