Pĕlops, ŏpis, m., = Πέλοψ.
I 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 Oenomaus , 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.
1 Pĕlŏpēïas , ădis, f. adj., Pelopian , Peloponnesian : Pelopeïadesque Mycenae, Ov. M. 6, 414.—
2 Pĕlŏpēïs , ĭdis, f. adj., Pelopian , Peloponnesian : Pelopeides undae, the sea that surrounds the Peloponnesus , Ov. F. 4, 285.
IV —Hence, Pĕlŏpēĭdes , um, f., the Argive women , Stat. Th. 10, 50; 12, 540.—
3 Pĕlŏpēïus , a, um, adj., = Πελοπήιος.
a 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.—
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. —
4 Pĕlŏpēus , a, um, adj.
a 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.—
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.—
5 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 Caesar).—
6 Pĕlŏpĭus , a, um, adj., Pelopian : Pelopia domus, Sen. Agam. 7.—
II A slave's name , Cic. Att. 14, 8, 1.