Ixion
Americannoun
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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 Ixion never reached a second number, and so Mayall’s own account of his historic ride was never completed.
From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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
Ixion, a mere man, strives to be on an equality with gods.
From Browning and His Century by Clarke, Helen Archibald
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