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Icarus en Daedalus,
Apollodorus
[12]
On being apprized of the flight of
Theseus
and his company, Minos
shut up the guilty Daedalus
in the labyrinth, along with his son Icarus,
who had been borne to Daedalus
by Naucrate,
a female slave of Minos.
But Daedalus
constructed wings for himself and his son, and enjoined his son, when he took to
flight, neither to fly high, lest the glue should melt in the sun and the wings
should drop off, nor to fly near the sea, lest the pinions should be detached by
the damp.
[13]
But the infatuated Icarus,
disregarding his father's injunctions, soared ever higher, till, the glue
melting, he fell into the sea called after him Icarian, and perished.1
But Daedalus
made his way safely to
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Camicus
in Sicily.
[14]
And Minos
pursued Daedalus,
and in every country that he searched he carried a spiral shell and promised to
give a great reward to him who should pass a thread through the shell, believing
that by that means he should discover Daedalus.
And having come to Camicus
in Sicily,
to the court of Cocalus,
with whom Daedalus
was concealed, he showed the spiral shell. Cocalus
took it, and promised to thread it, and gave it to Daedalus;
[15]
and Daedalus
fastened a thread to an ant, and, having bored a hole in the spiral shell,
allowed the ant to pass through it. But when Minos
found the thread passed through the shell, he perceived that Daedalus
was with Cocalus,
and at once demanded his surrender.1 Cocalus
promised to surrender him, and made an entertainment for
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Minos;
but after his bath Minos
was undone by the daughters of Cocalus;
some say, however, that he died through being drenched with boiling water.2
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