Ixion

(Ixi′on), the son of Phlegyas, King of the Lapithae. For attempting to produce thunder, Jupiter cast him into hell, and had him bound to a wheel, surrounded with serpents, which is forever turning over a river of fire. “The powers of vengeance, while they hear, Touched with compa ion, drop a tear; Ixion’s rapid wheel is bound, Fixed in attention to the sound.” F. Lewis. “Or, as Ixion fix’d, the wretch shall feel The giddy motion of the whirling wheel.” Pope. Jani (Ja′ni) was a place in Rome where there were three statues of Janus, and it was a meeting-place for usurers and creditors.