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1894 Brewer’s / I / Ixion

Ixiʹon

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A king of the Lapithæ, bound to a revolving wheel of fire in the Infernal regions, for his impious presumption in trying to imitate the thunder of heaven. (Greek mythology.)

⁂ The treadmill is sometimes called “Ixīon’s Wheel.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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