Defining

[Nonson]

The fable of Ixion, who, embracing a cloud instead of Juno, begot the Centaurs, has been ingeniously enough supposed to have been invented to represent to us ambitious men, whose minds, doting on glory, which is a mere image of virtue, PRODUCE NOTHING THAT IS GENUINE OR UNIFORM, but only, as might be expected of such a conjunction, MISSHAPEN AND UNNATURAL ACTIONS. Running after their emulations and passions, and carried away by the impulse of the moment,......Agis by Plutarch