Pausanias Description of Greece 2.17.4

[4] The statue [ agalma] of Hērā is seated on a throne [ thronos]; it [= the statue] is huge in size, made of gold and ivory, and is a work of Polycleitus. She is wearing [on her head] a garland [ stephanos] that features Graces [ Kharites] and Seasons [ Hōrai] worked upon it, and in one hand she holds a pomegranate while in the other a scepter [ skēptron]. About the pomegranate … I must let go of this subject, since its story [ logos] is somewhat mystical [ apo-rrhētos]. The presence of a cuckoo seated on the scepter [ skēptron] they explain by telling how, when Zeus lusted [ erân] for Hērā as virgin [ parthénos], he changed himself into this bird, and she caught it to be her plaything [ paignion]. This story [ logos] and similar things said about the gods I write down without accepting [ apodekhesthai] them, but I write them down nevertheless.