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|lshtext=<b>Pĕlops</b>: ŏpis, m., = [[Πέλοψ]]>.<br /><b>I</b> Son of [[Tantalus]], [[king]] of [[Phrygia]], [[father]] of [[Atreus]] and [[Thyestes]], [[grandfather]] of [[Agamemnon]] and [[Menelaus]]; in his [[childhood]] he [[was]] served up to the gods by his [[father]] for [[food]] (truncatus [[Pelops]], Stat. Th. 4, 590), [[but]] [[was]] recalled to [[life]] by Jupiter, [[who]] gave him an [[ivory]] [[shoulder]] in [[place]] of the one eaten by [[Ceres]] (umeroque [[Pelops]] [[insignis]] eburno, Verg. G. 3, 7). Being [[afterwards]] driven [[out]] of [[Phrygia]], he went to [[Elis]], and by [[artifice]] obtained the [[hand]] of [[Hippodamia]], [[daughter]] of [[king]] Œnomaus, to whose [[throne]] he succeeded. By [[means]] of the [[wealth]] [[which]] he brought [[with]] him, he [[acquired]] so [[great]] an [[influence]] [[that]] the [[entire]] [[peninsula]] [[was]] called, [[after]] him, the [[island]] of [[Pelops]] ([[Peloponnesus]]), Hyg. Fab. 83, 84; Serv. Verg. G. 3, 7; Cic. N. D. 3, 21, 53; id. Tusc. 1, 44, 107; 2, 27, 67: Pelope [[natus]], i. e. [[Thyestes]], Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 3, 12, 26 (Trag. v. 397 Vahl.): ex Tantalo [[Pelops]], ex Pelope [[autem]] [[satus]] [[Atreus]], Trag. Rel. Inc. Fab. v. 102 Rib.: Pelopis [[genitor]], i. e. [[Tantalus]], Hor. C. 1, 28, 7.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pĕlŏpēïas, ădis, f. adj., Pelopian, Peloponnesian: Pelopeïadesque [[Mycenae]], Ov. M. 6, 414.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pĕlŏpēïs, ĭdis, f. adj., Pelopian, Peloponnesian: Pelopeides undae, the [[sea]] [[that]] surrounds the [[Peloponnesus]], Ov. F. 4, 285.—Hence, Pĕlŏpēĭdes, um, f., the Argive women, Stat. Th. 10, 50; 12, 540.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pĕlŏpēïus, a, um, adj., = Πελοπήιος.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Pelopian: Pelopeius [[Atreus]], Ov. H. 8, 27: [[virgo]], i. e. [[Iphigenia]], [[daughter]] of [[Agamemnon]], id. Tr. 4, 4, 67: arva, i. e. [[Phrygia]], the [[native]] [[country]] of [[Pelops]], id. M. 8, 622.—Subst.: Pĕlŏpēia, ae, f., a [[female]] [[descendant]] of [[Pelops]], Ov. H. 8, 81.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Peloponnesian: Pelopeia [[sedes]], i. e. the [[seat]] of [[Creon]], [[king]] of [[Corinth]], Sen. Med. 891: oppida, Claud. in Rufin. 2, 188: regna, the [[Peloponnesus]], Stat. Th. 1, 117. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>4</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pĕlŏpēus, a, um, adj.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Pelopian: [[Agamemnon]], Prop. 4 (5), 6, 33: [[domus]], the [[race]] of the Pelopides, id. 3, 17, 20 (4, 18, 20): P. [[Orestes]], Luc. 7, 778.—Subst.: Pĕ-lŏpēa, ae, f., the [[daughter]] of [[Pelops]], Ov. Ib. 361; Claud. in Eutr. 1, 291; the [[name]] of a [[tragedy]], Juv. 7, 92.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Peloponnesian: [[Pelopea]] [[phalanx]], the Argive [[army]], Stat. Th. 7, 422.—Poet., in a [[more]] extended [[sense]], for Grecian: [[Pelopea]] ad [[moenia]], i. e. to [[Greece]], Verg. A. 2, 193.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>5</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pĕlŏ-pĭdae, ārum, m., the descendants of [[Pelops]] ([[notorious]] for [[their]] crimes), the Pelopides, Hyg. Fab. 86; an old [[poet]] in Cic. Fam. 7, 28, 2; 7, 30, 1; id. Att. 14, 12, 2; 15, 11, 3 (applied by [[Cicero]] to the adherents of Cæsar).—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>6</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Pĕlŏpĭus, a, um, adj., Pelopian: Pelopia [[domus]], Sen. Agam. 7.—<br /><b>II</b> A [[slave]]'s [[name]], Cic. Att. 14, 8, 1.