PHLEGYAS, son of Mars and Chryse, daughter of Halmus, was king of
Lapithae, a people of Thessaly. Apollo having seduced his daughter
Coronis, Phlegyas, in revenge, set fire to the temple of that god at
Delphi, for which sacrilege the deity killed him with his arrows, and
then cast him into Tart{)a}rus; where he was sentenced to sit under a
huge rock, which threatened him with perpetual destruction.

IXION was son of Phlegyas, king of the Lapithae in Thessaly. He married
Dia, daughter of Deioneus, whose consent he obtained by magnificent
promises, but, failing afterwards to perform them, Deioneus seized on
his horses. Ixion dissembled his resentment, and inviting Deioneus to a
banquet, received him in an apartment previously prepared, from which,
by withdrawing a door, his father-in-law was thrown into a furnace of
fire. Stung, however, with remorse, and universally despised, Ixion was
overpowered with frenzy, till Jupiter at length re-admitted him to
favor, and not only took him into heaven, but intrusted him also with
his counsels. So ungrateful, notwithstanding, did Ixion become, as to
attempt the chastity of Juno herself. This so incensed Jupiter that the
angry deity hurled him into Tart{)a}rus, and fixed him on a wheel
encompassed with serpents, which was doomed to revolve without
intermission.

SALMONEUS, king of Elis, was son of AEolus, (not he who was king of the
winds, but another of the name) and Anarete. Not satisfied with an
earthly crown, Salmoneus panted after divine honors; and, in order that
the people might esteem him a god, he built a brazen bridge over the
city, and drove his chariot along it, imitating, by this noise,
Jupiter's thunder; at the same time throwing flaming torches among the
spectators below, to represent his lightning, by which many were killed.
Jupiter, in resentment of this insolence, precipitated the ambitious
mortal into hell, where, according to Virgil, AEneas saw him.

SISIPHUS, _or_ SISYPHUS, a descendant of AEolus, married Merope, one of
the Pleiades, who bore him Glaucus. He resided at Ephyra, in
Peloponnesus, and was conspicuous for his craft. Some say he was a
Trojan secretary, who was punished for discovering secrets of state;
whilst others contend that he was a notorious robber killed by Theseus.
However, all the poets agree that he was punished in Tart{)a}rus for his
crimes, by rolling a great stone to the top of a hill, which constantly
recoiling and rolling down aga