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A king of the Lapithæ, bound to a revolving wheel of fire in the Infernal regions, for his impious presumption in trying to imitate the thunder of heaven. (Greek mythology.)
The treadmill is sometimes called “Ixion's Wheel.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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