P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses 8.210–222

With father and son now aloft, the passage frames the journey with a simile of a parent bird and its fledglings, a brief vignette of countryfolk at their work below, and a catalogue of Aegean islands passing in turn: Samos (sacred to Juno), Delos, Paros, Lebinthos, and Calymne.

 

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dum Daedalus opus facit et fīlium monet, lacrimāvit. manūs senis patris tremuērunt. ōscula fīliō suō dedit, sed haec ōscula ultima erant. tum Daedalus pennīs volāvit. ante fīlium volābat et fīliō suō timēbat. sīcut avis parvōs fīliōs ē nīdō in caelum dūcit, sīc Daedalus Īcarum docēbat. Daedalus Īcarum hortābātur ut sequerētur. malās artēs eum docēbat. ipse ālās suās movēbat et ālās fīliī spectābat.

 

aliquis piscēs capiēbat. pastor in agrīs stābat. agricola arābat. omnēs Daedalum et Īcarum vīdērunt et valdē mīrātī sunt. putāvērunt: 'deī sunt! per caelum volant!' iam Samos in laevā parte erat. Dēlos et Paros iam ā tergō erant. Lebinthos in dextrā parte erat. Calymnē quoque ibi erat.

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