Ixi'on, a king of the Lapithæ, the father of Pirithous. Unable to find purification on earth for the treacherous murder of his father-in-law, he was taken up into heaven and purified by Zeus. But he attempted to seduce Hera, and for punishment he was chained to a fiery wheel, which rolled for ever in the sky.
Ixi'on,
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 258
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