Phlegyas

, a son of Mars by Chryse daughter of Halmus, was king of the Lapithæ in The aly. He was father of Ixion and Coronis, to whom Apollo offered violence. When the father heard that his daughter had been so wantonly abused, he marched an army against Delphi, and reduced the temple of the god to ashes. This was highly resented. Apollo killed Phlegyas and placed him in hell, where a huge stone hangs over his head, and keeps him in continual alarms, by its appearance of falling every moment. Pausanias , bk. 9 , ch. 36 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 5 .— Pindar , Pythian , bk. 3 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 5 , li. 87 .— Servius , Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil , bk. 6 , li. 618 .