These they endowed with such reckless generosity, that all their favours were soon dispensed, and none remained for the endowment of man. Although they had not the remotest idea how to overcome this difficulty, they proceeded to fashion man from clay. […] Man was content. […] As a last resort he sent heralds to publish far and wide that the king would give a great reward to any man who would dare attack and succeed in slaying the monster. […] The father-in-law was an avaricious man, and clamoured so loudly for his money, that Ixion, to be rid of his importunities, slew him.