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Accordingly Myrtilus, being in love with her
and wishing to gratify her, did not insert the linchpins in the boxes of the wheels,1 and thus caused Oenomaus to lose the race and
to be entangled in the reins and dragged to death; but according to some, he was killed by
Pelops. And in dying he cursed Myrtilus, whose treachery he had discovered,
praying that he might perish by the hand of Pelops.
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1 According to another account, which had the support of Pherecydes, Myrtilus substituted linchpins of wax for linchpins of bronze. See Scholiast on Ap. Rhod., Argon. i.752; Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 156; Scholiast on Eur. Or. 998; Serv. Verg. G. 3.7, ed. Lion, where for aereis we should read cereis （the text in Thilo and Hagen's edition of Servius is mutilated and omits the passage）; Scriptores rerum mythicarum Latini, ed. Bode, i. pp. 7, 125 (First Vatican Mythographer 21; Second Vatican Mythographer 146).
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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