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LOVERS’ LEGENDS Love for Hippodamia drove Pelops on, but he feared the cruelty of the king, and his confidence was broken. Only the memory of the girl kept him from turning tail and making for home. As night came on, he walked alone to the shore of the gray sea, and called aloud to his old lover. He straight away appeared out of the darkness, close at hand. Pelops addressed the god with heartfelt words: 23