Ixion
mythological figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
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Orations
Mythical figure punished by being bound to an ever-turning wheel.
But if it does not please anyone to conceive and make him winged, let him liken him to the harsh and violent flight and compulsion of Ixion, by the rush of a wheel moved and borne in a circle.
For he who fails of the love of true fame, and then consorts with the desire of glory, in truth has unawares consorted with a cloud instead of the divine and august union.
For they say that he too, desiring the blessed union with Hera, and consorting with a cloud, dark and misty, begot useless and monstrous offspring, the race of the Centaurs, motley and patched together.
Heracles
Mythical figure eternally bound to a revolving wheel as punishment, invoked by Heracles as an image of his own dreaded fate.
for earth will cry out forbidding me to touch her, the sea and the river-springs will refuse me a crossing, and I shall become like Ixion who revolves in chains upon that wheel.
Pythian
A mythological figure eternally punished on a spinning wheel for attempting to seduce Hera, used as the central cautionary exemplum of Pythian 2.
Ixion brought upon himself the four-spoked fetter, his own ruin.
second, in the vast recesses of that bridal chamber he once made an attempt on the wife of Zeus.
They say that by the commands of the gods Ixion spins round and round on his feathered wheel, saying this to mortals:
Letters to Lucilius
Mythological figure eternally bound to a spinning wheel in the underworld.
I am not so foolish as to run through here the Epicurean refrain and say that the fears of the world below are empty—that Ixion is not whirled upon his wheel, that the stone is not pushed uphill on the shoulders of Sisyphus, that no man's vitals can be devoured and grow again daily;