Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 547
beat with loveonly for Ixion the beauti-ful and mighty, who cameto the halls of Hesioneuswith horses which can notgrow old or die. Thegolden hair flashed a gloryfrom his head dazzling asthe rays.which stream fromHelios when he drives hischariot up the heights ofheaven, and his flowingrobe glistened… … IXION. -^X Hesioneus was loth to part with his child. But at the lastIxion sware to give for her a ransom precious as the i^^oldenfruits which tielios wins from the teeming earth. So theword was spoken, and Dia the fair became the wife of theson of Amythaon, and the undying horses bare her awav…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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