“Although Minos,” said he, “may beset the land and the sea, still the skies, at least, are open. By that way will we go: let Minos possess everything besides: he does not sway the air.” …when the boy began to be pleased with a bolder flight, and forsook his guide; … The vicinity of the scorching Sun softened the fragrant wax that fastened his wings.

“Icarus, I recommend thee to keep the middle tract; lest, if thou shouldst go too low, the water should clog thy wings; if too high, the fire of the sun should scorch them.” His face, too, as he called on the name of his father, was received in the azure water, …

“Fly between both; and I bid thee neither to look at Boötes, nor Helice, nor the drawn sword of Orion.” But the unhappy father, now no more a father, said, “Icarus, where art thou? In what spot shall I seek thee, Icarus?”

…when the boy began to be pleased with a bolder flight, and forsook his guide; … The vicinity of the scorching Sun softened the fragrant wax that fastened his wings. “Although Minos,” said he, “may beset the land and the sea, still the skies, at least, are open. By that way will we go: let Minos possess everything besides: he does not sway the air.”

His face, too, as he called on the name of his father, was received in the azure water, … “Icarus, I recommend thee to keep the middle tract; lest, if thou shouldst go too low, the water should clog thy wings; if too high, the fire of the sun should scorch them.”

But the unhappy father, now no more a father, said, “Icarus, where art thou? In what spot shall I seek thee, Icarus?” “Fly between both; and I bid thee neither to look at Boötes, nor Helice, nor the drawn sword of Orion.”

“Although Minos,” said he, “may beset the land and the sea, still the skies, at least, are open. By that way will we go: let Minos possess everything besides: he does not sway the air.” …when the boy began to be pleased with a bolder flight, and forsook his guide; … The vicinity of the scorching Sun softened the fragrant wax that fastened his wings.

“Icarus, I recommend thee to keep the middle tract; lest, if thou shouldst go too low, the water should clog thy wings; if too high, the fire of the sun should scorch them.” His face, too, as he called on the name of his father, was received in the azure water, …

“Fly between both; and I bid thee neither to look at Boötes, nor Helice, nor the drawn sword of Orion.” But the unhappy father, now no more a father, said, “Icarus, where art thou? In what spot shall I seek thee, Icarus?”

…when the boy began to be pleased with a bolder flight, and forsook his guide; … The vicinity of the scorching Sun softened the fragrant wax that fastened his wings. “Although Minos,” said he, “may beset the land and the sea, still the skies, at least, are open. By that way will we go: let Minos possess everything besides: he does not sway the air.”

His face, too, as he called on the name of his father, was received in the azure water, … “Icarus, I recommend thee to keep the middle tract; lest, if thou shouldst go too low, the water should clog thy wings; if too high, the fire of the sun should scorch them.”

But the unhappy father, now no more a father, said, “Icarus, where art thou? In what spot shall I seek thee, Icarus?” “Fly between both; and I bid thee neither to look at Boötes, nor Helice, nor the drawn sword of Orion.”