[346] periuri Pelopis: Pelops won the chariot-race, and so the hand of Hippodamia, from her father, Oenomaus, by offering half of his kingdom to the latter's charioteer, Myrtilus, if he would loosen the linchpins of the chariot, or substitute pins of wax. Upon the success of the plot, Pelops refused to carry out his agreement, and threw Myrtilus into the sea near Geraestus in Euboea. But the dying curse of Myrtilus followed the house of Pelops thereafter. Cf. Pind. O. 1.114ff.; Apoll. Rh. 1.752; Hyg. Fab. 84.
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