P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses 8.223–235

The episode reaches its turn, and the focus narrows to the boy alone, then to the father's search. The Latin closes with two aetiologies, the naming of the Icarian Sea and of the island Icaria.

 

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subitō puer audācī volātū gaudēre coepit. patrem suum dēseruit. caelum cupiēbat. itaque altius volāvit. sed sōl prope erat. sōl cēram molliēbat. cēra dēfluxit. Īcarus pennās nōn iam habēbat. sē movēbat, sed volāre nōn poterat. āer eum nōn portābat. Īcarus patrem clāmāvit. tum in mare caeruleum cecidit. mare nōmen ab Īcarō trāxit.

 

at Daedalus pater īnfēlīx erat. nōn iam pater erat. 'Īcare,' dīxit. 'Īcare,' dīxit, 'ubi es? in quā regiōne tē quaeram?' 'Īcare,' dīcēbat. tum pennās in undīs vīdit. artēs suās ōdit. corpus fīliī in sepulcrō posuit. terra quoque nōmen ab Īcarō trāxit.

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