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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8)

Note FI — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 2)

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The reference is doubtless to Pausanias, i. 37, 3. "Before you cross the Cephisus, there is the monument of Theodorus, who excelled all his contemporaries as an actor in tragedy; and near to the river, there are [two] statues, one of Mnesimache, another of her son, in the act of cutting off his hair [over the stream and presenting it] as a votive offering to the Cephisus." See Note D in the Appendix to this volume, p. 396.—ED.

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