Ixion: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>Ixīon</b>: ŏnis, m., = [[Ἰξίων]],><br /><b>I</b> the [[son]] of [[Phlegyas]] (acc. to others, of Antion or of Jupiter), [[king]] of the Lapithæ in [[Thessaly]], and [[father]] of Pirithoüs. He murdered his [[father]]-in-[[law]], to [[avoid]] paying the [[nuptial]] presents; and as no one would [[absolve]] him [[after]] [[such]] a [[deed]], Jupiter took him [[into]] [[heaven]] and [[there]] purified him. When, [[notwithstanding]] this, he made an [[attempt]] on the [[chastity]] of [[Juno]], Jupiter substituted for her an [[image]] of [[cloud]], [[with]] [[which]] he begat the Centaurs; [[but]] having boasted of his [[imaginary]] [[criminal]] [[success]] [[with]] [[Juno]], Jupiter hurled him [[into]] [[Tartarus]], [[where]] he [[was]] [[bound]] [[fast]] to an [[ever]]-revolving [[wheel]], Ov. M. 4, 465; 10, 42; Verg. A. 6, 601: Ixione [[natus]], i. e. Pirithoüs, Ov. M. 12, 210: Ixione nati, the Centaurs. id. ib. 12, 504.—<br /><b>II</b> Derivv.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Ixīŏnĭus (-onĕus), a, um, adj., of or belonging to [[Ixion]]: Ixionei [[rota]] [[orbis]], Verg. G. 4, 484: Ixionii amici, Lampr. Heliog. 24.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Ixīŏnĭdes, ae, m., [[son]] of [[Ixion]], i. e. Pirithoüs, Prop. 2, 1, 38.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: Ixīŏnĭdae, ārum, the Centaurs, Luc. 6, 386; Ov. M. 8, 566.