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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.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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