Book VI. 14-31

Daedalus, as the story is/goes, fleeing the kingdoms/realms of Minos
having dared to trust himself to the sky on swift wings 15
flew forth by/through an uncustomary/novel route to the icy lands of the North,
and at last stood by lightly over the Chalcidic citadel.
Having returned first to these lands, to you Phoebus, he dedicated
the oarage of his wings and placed enormous temples.
On its doors is the death of Androgeos; then the Athenians, ordered 20
(miserable!) to pay as recompense every year seven bodies
of their sons; the urn stands (there) with the lots having been drawn.
On the opposite side, lifted out of/rising out of the sea, the Cnossian land responds;
here is the cruel love of the bull and Pasiphae having been positioned beneath
by deception and the mixed race and hybrid offspring, 25
the Minotaur, memorials to unspeakable Love,
here is that labor of the house and the inescapable maze;
but, indeed Daedalus himself, having pitied the great love of the
princess, unravels the deceptive enigmas of the roof/dwelling,
guiding the blind footsteps (of Theseus) with a thread. 30
You too, Icarus, would have a large part in so great a work, if grief had allowed it.



Line 24- supposta= syncope for supposita
Line 27- Hendiadys- hic labor ille domus et inextrabile error= laborious inescapable maze
Line 31- Apostrophe- Icare