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Pelops
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From Ancient Greek Πέλοψ (Pélops, “dark face, eye”).
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Pelops
- (Greek mythology) A Greek mythological figure, the son of Tantalus, and king of Pisa in the Peloponnesus.
- [1611?], Homer, “Book II”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC, page 53:
- His messenger, Argicides, to Pelops, skill'd in horse; / Pelops to Atreus, chief of men; he dying, gave it course
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