Dædalus built for this purpose the Labyrinth, a far-extending edifice, in which were countless passages, so winding and intertwining that no person confined in it could ever find his way out again.
It had the body of a man and the head of a bull, and so great was the havoc it wrought among the Cretans that Minos engaged the great artist Dædalus to construct a den from which it could not escape.
And wise he must have been, to do more Than ever a genius did before, Excepting Dædalus of yore And his son Icarus, who wore Upon their backs Those wings of wax He had read of in the old almanacs.
The age of Dædalus marks an improvement in the modeling of the human figure, and in giving it life and action.
But prison bars and locks did not exist that were strong enough to baffle this master craftsman, and from the tower in which they were shut, Dædalus and his son were not long in making their escape.
Now all that had come to an end, and Dædalus was glad and proud as well to watch his son's joy and his fearless daring.
For his crime Dædalus was banished from Athens, and in the court of Minos, king of Crete, he found a refuge.
By her Perdrix was turned into the bird that still bears his name, and Dædalus beheld Perdrix, the partridge, rapidly winging his way to the far-off fields.
Gentle Dawn, the rosy-fingered, was slowly making her way up from the East when Dædalus and Icarus began their flight.
Dædalus he left far behind, and still upwards he mounted.
Soon it seemed that the nephew, though he might not excel his uncle, equalled Dædalus in his inventive power.
We call the time to which Dædalus belonged the prehistoric period, and his works and those of other artists of his day have all perished.
Zuliani was an enlightened patron of art, and he received the young sculptor with great kindness, and soon arranged to have his model of Dædalus and Icarus exhibited to the best artists and judges of art in Rome.
About this time he executed an Apollo and Daphne which was never entirely finished, and when twenty-two years old he completed a group of Dædalus and Icarus for the Senator Pisani.
Thus Dædalus the numerous paths perplex'd With puzzlings intricate, so much entwin'd, Himself could scarce the outer threshold gain.
Dædalus enjoys also the reputation of having constructed machines that imitated the motions of the human body.
When they were done, Dædalus fitted them to his own shoulders, and after one or two efforts, he found that by waving his arms he could winnow the air and cleave it, as a swimmer does the sea.
And he made a dancing-ground, like that which Dædalus wrought at Gnosos for lovely fair-haired Ariadne.
He fell like a leaf tossed down the wind, down, down, with one cry that overtook Dædalus far away.
Dædalus managed to escape from his cell; but it seemed impossible to leave the island, since every ship that came or went was well guarded by order of the king.
The wild beasts were roaming loose in the amphitheatre, and if either Dædalus or Icarus was not killed by a fall from the tower, he would be devoured in the arena.
The story of Dædalus and Icarus should be enacted, and as a slim and graceful youth was needed for the part of Icarus, poor Nazarius, the son of Miriam, was selected for this character.
Chiefly, however, are Dædalus and Icarus now known for fitting wings to the human arms, and for attempting to fly across the sea from Crete to the shore of Greece.
Mr. Singer has employed the Greek fable of Dædalus to restore the connexion of the arts of the north with the elder civilisation of Europe, and Dr.
The Greeks assigned to the history of Dædalus a very high antiquity, carrying him back to somewhere about the thirteenth century before the Christian era; but it may admit of doubt if Greece had then passed her own primitive stage.
Voelundr signified a smith in Islandic; and Dædalus was, like Weland, pre-eminently the artist and the workman.
How the story of our northern Dædalus came to be associated with the monolithic group at the foot of White-Horse Hill, in the vale of Berkshire, it is now equally vain and useless to inquire.
At first the word Dædalus was, among the Greeks, like that of Weland among the Scandinavians, a generic name.
I know that Dædalus was a very ingenious artist of Athens, who planned the Cretan labyrinth, invented carpentry and some of the tools used in the trade; but I don't know why his name was given to this lighthouse.
A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by D\'91dalus in Crete.
The word also alludes to the mythical D\'91dalus (Gr.
Music, the Law of Kindness, as Dædalus of Music, the Law of Construction.
Dædalus (not Icarus, but the father trying the wings).
Then Dædalus made wings for himself and his son Icarus, and fastened them with wax, and together the two flew from their prison-house high above the pursuit of the King's warfleet.
So Dædalus alone came safely to Sicily, and was there hospitably received by King Kokalos of Kamikos, for whom, as for Minos, he executed many marvellous works.
Dædalus has just fastened the wings upon his son and is giving the final directions.
It was impossible to escape by way of the sea without detection, but Dædalus was not discouraged.
This was the very danger against which Dædalus had warned his son.
You wouldn't make Dædalus the evening clouds accompanying Minos, the sun, to his setting in Sicily, in the west?
As soon as we get a whisper of civilization in Greece, we find Dædalus successful in flying.
In Dædalus I see either a record of a successful attempt at artificial flight, or at the very least, the expression of an aspiration as old as culture.
And the meteorological mycologists, sir, they maintain that Dædalus is only the lightning flying in the breast of the storm!
And this is the deep meaning of the myth of Dædalus as the giver of motion to statues.
But Dædalus reigns no less over the spot of the leopard and snake.
The death of Dædalus was represented, and also that of Icarus.
In the rôle of Dædalus appeared Euricius, that old man who had given Chilo the sign of the fish; the role of Icarus was taken by his son, Quartus.
Dædalus both moves his own wings himself, and looks back on those of his son; and he ever keeps on his own course.
So it was not hard for him to persuade Dædalus to make his home with him and be the chief of his artisans.
Not long after this it happened that Dædalus was guilty of a deed which angered the king very greatly; and had 15 not Minos wished him to build other buildings for him, he would have put him to death and served him right.
Dædalus was not pleased when he saw that the lad was 5 so apt and wise, so ready to learn, and so eager to do.
Then he gave orders to the guards at the city gates that they should not let Dædalus pass out at any time, and he set soldiers to watch the ships that were in port so that he could not escape by sea.
Dædalus 15 turned just in time to see Icarus fall headlong into the waves.
And wise he must have been, to do more Than ever a genius did before, 10 Excepting Dædalus of yore, And his son Icarus, who wore Upon their backs Those wings of wax He had read of in the old almanacs.
Towards noon the sun shone very warm, and Dædalus called out to the boy, who was a little behind him, and told him to keep his wings cool and not fly too high.
Once fairly away from the island 25 they turned towards the west, for Dædalus had heard of an island named Sicily which lay hundreds of miles away, and he had made up his mind to seek a new home there.
Dædalus had a nephew named Perdix, whom he had taken when a boy to teach the trade of builder.
Day after day, while at his work, Dædalus pondered over 10 this matter, and soon his heart was filled with hatred towards young Perdix.
The sister of Dædalus commits her son Perdix to his care, for the purpose of being educated.
Dædalus being unable to escape from the island of Crete, invents wings and flies away; while Icarus, accompanying his father, is drowned.
Dædalus had been exiled for murdering one of his scholars in a fit of jealousy; probably Perdix, his nephew, whose story is related by Ovid.
But though the ingenuity of the whole world were to centre here, though Dædalus himself were to fly back again with his waxen wings, what could he do?
Just so, Dædalus fills innumerable paths with windings; and scarcely can he himself return to the entrance, so great are the intricacies of the place.
Dædalus was a talented Athenian, of the family of Erechtheus; and he was particularly famed for his skill in statuary and architecture.
He was the king of Sicily, who received Dædalus with hospitality.
Dædalus was envious, and threw him headlong from the sacred citadel of Minerva, falsely pretending that he had fallen {by accident}.
Flaxman, "that sculpture was 800 years, from Dædalus to the time immediately preceding Phidias, in attaining a tolerable resemblance of the human form.
The works of Dædalus are described by Pausanias as rude and uncomely in aspect.
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