DAEDALUS AND ICARUS
When he had put the last touches to what he had begun, the artificer balanced his own body between the two wings and hovered in the moving air. He instructed the boy as well, saying ‘Let me warn you, Icarus, to take the middle way, in case the moisture weighs down your wings, if you fly too low, or if you go too high, the sun scorches them.Travel between the extremes.
Ovid: Metamorphosis, Book VIII.
Translated by A.S. Kline.
Some angler catching fish with a quivering rod, or a shepherd leaning on his crook, or a ploughman resting on the handles of his plough, saw them, perhaps, and stood there amazed, believing them to be gods able to travel the sky.
Ovid: Metamorphosis, Book VIII.
Translated by A.S. Kline.