| You are worse than Ixion, I feel, For he was not tied by himself to the wheel! |
| I bartered her for gifts, and Ixion withholds the wealth which he sware to give. |
| Ixion revolves on his wheel, at one moment up, at another down. |
| Ixion embraced the cloud, but from the embrace sprang a hero. |
| As Jupiter did when the adventurous Ixion intruded into Olympus, perhaps. |
| Then the voice of Ixion smote the ear of Hesioneus, harsh as the flapping of the wings of Erinys when she wanders through the air. |
