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The cows being on their sides on the ground, Hermes bends their heads back towards their flanks and so can reach their backbones.

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O. Müller thinks the "hides" were a stalactite formation in the "Cave of Nestor" near Messenian Pylos,—though the cave of Hermes is near the Alpheus (I. 139). Others 372