Demēter ate the shoulder of Pelops, served up by Tantălos; so when the gods restored the body to life, Demēter supplied the lacking shoulder with one of ivory.
“Not Pelopsʹ shoulder whiter than her hands.”
W. Browne: Britannia’s Pastorals, ii. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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