Daedalus artifex erat per omnem Graeciam nōtus. Templa aedificāvit, deum imāginēs mīrās et pulchrās fingēbat. Tum, quod sorōris fīlium necāverat, ā iūdicibus damnātus est et ad Crētam īnsulam discessit. Diū cum Īcarō fīliō captīvus in īnsulā tenēbātur. Tandem ālās fīnxit. ‘Marī undique,’ inquit, ‘velut carcere impedīmur: nāvēs nōn habēmus: arte tamen via aperiētur. Sī patris cōnsiliō pārēbis, per āera salūtem petēs.’ Tum ālās ad humerōs cērā dēligāvit. Statim Īcarus in āera ascendit: mox, quoniam prope sōlem volābat, cēra liquēscēbat, puer īnfēlīx in mare cecidit et poenās audāciae morte persolvit. Daedalus autem incolumis in Ītaliam volāvit ubi templum aedificāvit ālāsque Apollinī dēdicāvit.
[1]
Lines 1 – 2 (Daedalus … fingēbat)
What
information is given about Daedalus? (6)
[2]
Lines 2 – 4; translate (10)
[i]
Tum, quod ¦ [ii] sorōris fīlium ¦ [i] necāverat, ¦ [iii] ā
iūdicibus ¦ [iv] damnātus est ¦ et [v] ad Crētam īnsulam ¦ [vi] discessit. [vii]
Diū ¦ [viii] cum Īcarō fīliō ¦ [vii] captīvus ¦ [ix] in īnsulā ¦ [vii]
tenēbātur. [x] Tandem ālās fīnxit.*
[3]
Lines 4 – 5 (Marī … petēs)
[i]
With what is the sea compared and why? (3)
[ii]
How does Daedalus think they can escape? (1)
[iii]
Why must the son follow the father’s advice? (2)
[4]
Lines 6 – 8 (Tum … persolvit)
[i]
How were the wings attached? (2)
[ii]
What did Icarus immediately do? (1)
[iii]
What happened to Icarus and why? Discuss not only the physical reasons for this
but also the human failing which was the underlying factor. (4)
[5]
Lines 8 – end (Daedalus … dēdicāvit)
How
did the story end for Daedalus? Give details. (3); Daedalus autem incolumis
in Ītaliam volāvit ¦ ubi templum aedificāvit ¦ ālāsque Apollinī
dēdicāvit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus
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*Then, because he had killed (his) son’s sister, he was condemned by (the) judges and departed to the island of Crete. For a long time he was held captive on the island with (his) son Icarus. Finally he made wings.
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