Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . rtifice the necessary implementsfor making wings, and after having exercised his sonIcarus in the use of them, and given him warning notto raise himself too high, lest the wax with which thefeathers of his wings were united shovud be melted bythe sun-beams, nor, on the other hand, to pursue toolow a course, lest they should be wetted by the waterof the sea, both father and son took their flight throughthe opening of their prison. Icarus, overjoyed at his sailing through the air like a])ird, and forgetful of the counsel which his father hadgiven
Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . rtifice the necessary implementsfor making wings, and after having exercised his sonIcarus in the use of them, and given him warning notto raise himself too high, lest the wax with which thefeathers of his wings were united shovud be melted bythe sun-beams, nor, on the other hand, to pursue toolow a course, lest they should be wetted by the waterof the sea, both father and son took their flight throughthe opening of their prison. Icarus, overjoyed at his sailing through the air like a])ird, and forgetful of the counsel which his father hadgiven him, soared in an elevated course toward thesky, and fell from an immense height, the wax of hiswdngs having melted by the heat of the sea, in which he found his death, was called aftei-him the Icarian. Daedalus, who without pity had hurledTalus into the abyss, is now obliged, with distress ofsoul, to witness the fall of his own son, to whom he canafford no help. THE NtW YORK V BRÄRY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTiLcr-: :rü:;0ATiONS. Fa^e/^^. 179 He himself descended on Sicily, where he was hospi-tably received by King Cocains, and defended by himagainst the persecution of Minos. Grateful for this hos-pitality and protection, the artist undertook several greatworks, both of architecture and sculpture, in the territo-ry and for the benefit of King Cocakis. He dug canalsand ponds, he built a castle upon a high rock, levelledthe top of mount Eryx, and consecrated there a goldencow, formed by his own hands, to the Erycinian Venus. Long after his time traces of his genius and art werestill found in Sicily, and his name became proverbial todenote w^hatever is ingenious as well as artificial. Upon ancient works the representation of Daedalus isoften found, as he is sittmg and nmsing before the arti-ficial wing, on which he is still labouring with forminghand. THESEUS. iEgeus, a son of the Athenian king, Pandion, re-maining without childi-en, went to Delphi, to ask adviceof the orac
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