Ixion
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Ixionian adjective
Example Sentences
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They called the concept of a rocket stage-turned-habitat Ixion, after the grandfather of the Centaurs.
From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2018
Its implicit suggestion was that your selfish brats were doomed to repeat your biography, that humanity could never get off the burning wheel of Ixion.
From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2017
But in the moment of pure objective contemplation, free from all interest of the particular subjectivity, we enter a painless state: the wheel of Ixion stands still.
From Schopenhauer by Whittaker, Thomas
Maiden loved and deserted by Ixion, king of the Lapithæ, 169; significance, 389.
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)
And Demetrius Ixion says the συκάμινον and μόρον are the same, being a very juicy fruit, superior to the fig.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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