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When Pelops had reached the Ocean and
been cleansed by Hephaestus,1 he
returned to Pisa in Elis and succeeded to the kingdom of Oenomaus, but not
till he had subjugated what was formerly called Apia and Pelasgiotis, which he called Peloponnesus after himself.2
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1 Compare Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 156; Scholiast on Eur. Or. 990.
2 As to Apia, the old name of Peloponnese, see above, Apollod. 2.1.1; Paus. 2.5.7; Stephanus Byzantius, s.v. Ἀπία. The term Pelasgiotis seems not to occur elsewhere as a name for Peloponnese. However, Euripides uses Pelasgia apparently as equivalent to Argolis （Eur. Or. 960）.
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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