Ixion

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 26

(iks-i'on.) (Myth.) A king of the Lapithæ, and father of the Centaurs, by a cloud resembling Juno, which Jupiter sent to him when he aspired to the love of the Queen of Olympus. He was (as the poets said) fastened to an ever-turning wheel in the infernal regions [s. 497]