* Et iam.Calymne - Ovid is impressing us with his knowledge of Greek geography. * baculum, -i - 'staff' stiva, -ae - 'plow handle' innixus, -a, -um - 'at rest on' (w. * movet.suas et nati respicit alas - alas is being used as both the direct object of movet (in which case you use the adjective suas) and of respicit (which then takes the genitive nati as a modifier). * damnosus, -a, -um - 'dangerous', describing artes - 'skills' (needed for flying). * ab alto.nido - Consider the following word order: quae produxit teneram prolem ab alto nido in aera * dedit - Daedalus is the subject here and for levatus (est) in the next line. * maduo, -ere - 'to grow wet' note the poetic ending -ere for -erunt here and in the next line's tremuere. Remigioque carens non ullas percipit auras,Įxcipiuntur aqua, quae nomen traxit ab illo. Tabuerant cerae: Nudos quatit ille lacertos, Mollit odoratas, pennarum vincula, ceras. Parte Samos (fuerant Delosque Parosque relictae)ĭextra Lebinthos erat fecundaque melle Calymne,ĭeseruitque ducem caelique cupidine tractus Vidit et obstipuit: Quique aethera carpere possent, Hos aliquis tremula dum captat harundine pisces,Īut pastor baculo, stivave innixus arator Hortaturque sequi damnosasque erudit artesĮt movet ipse suas et nati respicit alas. Quae teneram prolem produxit in aera nido. Non iterum repetenda suo pennisque levatusĪnte volat comitique timet, velut ales, ab alto Inter opus monitusque, genae maduere seniles,Įt patriae tremuere manus dedit oscula nato

Daedalus, a prisoner on Crete, fits himself and his son Icarus with wax wings to escape

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