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40 Pelops on the summit of Sipylus, above the Hieron of Mother Plastene" (v. 13). A little further on, he speaks of "the oldest known statue of the Mother of the Gods, to be seen in the district of Magnesia, and of the rock that looked for all the world like



a woman immersed in grief," which popular fancy identified with Niobe.