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Pelops, therefore, got Hippodamia; and on his journey, in which he was accompanied by
Myrtilus, he came to a certain place, and withdrew a little to fetch water for his wife,
who was athirst; and in the meantime Myrtilus tried to rape her.1 But when Pelops learned that from
her, he threw Myrtilus into the sea, called after him the Myrtoan Sea, at Cape
Geraestus2; and Myrtilus, as he was being thrown, uttered curses against the
house of Pelops.
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1 Compare Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 156; Scholiast on Hom. Il. ii.104. The latter writer says, somewhat absurdly, that the incident took place when Pelops and Hippodamia were crossing the Aegean Sea, and that, Hippodamia being athirst, Pelops dismounted from the chariot to look for water in the desert.
2 Compare Eur. Or. 989ff.
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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