Story of Pelops
Pelops, the son of Tantalus, is murdered by his father, and served up in an entertainment to the gods, to make trial of their divinity—Jupiter discovers the perfidious cruelty, and restores Pelops to life—Part of the shoulder, which Ceres incautiously devoured, is supplied by a substitute made of ivory.
From these relations straight the people turn To present truths, and lost Amphion mourn; The mother most was blamed, yet some relate That Pelops pitied and bewail’d her fate, And stripp’d his clothes, and laid his shoulder bare And made the ivory miracle appear. This shoulder, from the first, was form’d of flesh, As lively as the other, and as fresh; But, when the youth was by his father slain, The gods restored his mangled limbs again; Only that place which joins the neck and arm, The rest untouch’d, was found to suffer harm; The loss of which an ivory piece sustain’d; And thus the youth his limbs and life regain’d.