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Ixion

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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The king of the Lapithæ (q. v .), who being admitted to heaven attempted to do violence to Hera, and whom Zeus deluded to embrace a phantom image of her instead, whereby he became the father of the Centaurs, and whom Zeus thereafter punished by fastening him hands and feet to an eternally revolving wheel in hell.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Ixion'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​i/ixion.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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