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Question 1

Daedalus interea Creten longumque perosus exilium, tactusque loci natalis amore, clausus erat pelago.

Answer 1

Daedalus in the meantime, hating Crete and his long exile
and having been touched by the love of his birthplace,
had been closed in by the sea

Question 2

“terrās licet” inquit “et undās
obstruat: et cælum certē patet; ībimus illac:
omnia possideat, nōn possidet āera Mīnos.”

Answer 2

He says, “Although Minos obstructs
the land and waves, the sky at least lies open; we will fly that way.
Minos may possess everything, but he does not possess the air.”

Question 3

dīxit et ignōtās animum dīmittit in artēs
natūramque novat. nam pōnit in ordine pennās
ā minimā cœptās, longam breviōre sequentī,
ut clīvō crēvisse putēs:

Answer 3

He spoke and sends down his mind into unknown arts
and changes his nature. For he puts feathers in a row
beginning with the littlest, and followed the long by the shorter,
so that you may think that it has grown on an incline

Question 4

īc rūstica quondam
fistula disparibus paulātim surgit avēnīs;
tum līnō mediās et cērīs alligat īmās
atque ita conpositās parvō curvāmine flectit,
ut vērās imitētur avēs.

Answer 4

in this way sometimes
a countryman’s pipe gradually builds up with reeds of different lengths.
Then he binds the middle feathers with thread and the lower feathers with wax
and then bends what he has created as
to mimic that of a true bird.

Question 5

puer Īcarus ūna
stābat et, ignārus sua sē tractāre pericla,
ore renīdentī modo, quās vaga mōverat aura,
captābat plūmās, flāvam modo pollice cēram
mollībat lūsūque suō mīrābile patris
impediēbat opus.

Answer 5

Together with his father, the boy Icarus
was standing unaware he was facing danger,
now with a beaming face kept on capturing the feathers
which the moving air has moved, with his thumb now kept softening the yellow wax
and with his play he kept interrupting the marvelous work of his father.

Question 6

postquam manus ultima cœptō
inposita est, geminās opifex librāvit in ālās
ipse suum corpus mōtāque pependit in aurā;

Answer 6

After the finishing touch had been placed
on the work, the craftsman balanced his body
in twin wings and suspended his body in the open air;