person
Ixion
A sinner of the underworld, bound to a wheel, who smiled at Mercury's song.
Reading notes
- The Art of Poetry §119-130 Ixion
King punished on an ever-turning wheel for betraying Jupiter's trust; the type of the faithless man.
- The Odes §3.11 Ixion
A damned sinner who 'smiled with unwilling face' at the music.