Ixion
noun
a king who was punished by Zeus for his love for Hera by being bound on an eternally revolving wheel in Tartarus.
Ixionian
-
a word derived from
Ixion.
Example Sentences
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All that she could at first distinguish of them was one syllable, continually repeated in a low note of moaning, as if it came from a soul bound to some Ixionian wheel— "O—O—O!"
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
