Ixion In Heaven

Benjamin Disraeli

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IXION IN HEAVEN

By Benjamin Disraeli

 ADVERTISEMENT  'IXION, King of Thessaly, famous for its horses, married  Dia, daughter of Deioneus, who, in consequence of his son-  in-law's non-fulfilment of his engagements, stole away some  of the monarch's steeds. Ixion concealed his resentment  under the mask of friendship. He invited his father-in-law  to a feast at Larissa, the capital of his kingdom; and when  Deioneus arrived according to his appointment, he threw him  into a pit which he had previously filled with burning  coals. This treachery so irritated the neighbouring princes,  that all of them refused to perform the usual ceremony, by  which a man was then purified of murder, and Ixion was  shunned and despised by all mankind. Jupiter had compassion  upon him, carried him to Heaven, and introduced him to the  Father of the Gods. Such a favour, which ought to have  awakened gratitude in Ixion, only served to inflame his bad  passions; he became enamoured of Juno, and attempted to  seduce her. Juno was willing to gratify the passion of  Ixion, though, according to others,' &c.—Classical  Dictionary, art. 'Ixion.'    

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IXION IN HEAVEN PART I. PART II.

IXION IN HEAVEN

PART I.

 An Errant King THE thunder groaned, the wind howled, the rain fell in hissing torrents, impenetrable darkness covered the earth. A blue and forky flash darted a momentary light over the landscape. A Doric temple rose in the centre of a small and verdant plain, surrounded on all sides by green and hanging woods. 'Jove is my only friend,' exclaimed a wanderer, as he muffled himself up in his mantle; 'and were it not for the porch of his temple, this night, methinks, would complete the work of my loving wife and my dutiful subjects.' The thunder died away, the wind sank into silence, the rain ceased, and the parting clouds exhibited the glittering crescent of the young moon. A sonorous and majestic voice sounded from the skies:— 'Who art thou that hast no other friend than Jove?' 'One whom all mankind unite in calling a wretch.' 'Art thou a philosopher?' 'If philosophy be endurance. But for the rest, I was sometime a king, and am now a scatterling.' 'How do they call thee? 'Ixion of Thessaly.' 'Ixion of Thessaly! I thought he was a happy man. I heard that he was just married. ' 'Father of Gods and men! for I deem thee such, Thessal is not Ol m us.

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