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Ixionides

a patronymic, applied by Ovid (Ov. Met. 8.566) to Peirithous, the son of Ixion; but the plural, Ixionidae, occurs also as a name of the Centaurs. (Lucan, 6.386.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.