152Minos paid his vows to Jupiter, the bodies of a hundred bulls, as soon as he left his ships and touched the land of the Curetes, and his palace was adorned with the spoils fixed up in it. 155The disgrace of his family had grown, and the mother's foul adultery was laid bare by the strangeness of the two-formed monster. 157Minos resolves to remove this shame from his house and to shut it in a many-chambered dwelling, under blind roofs. 159Daedalus, most famous for his talent in the builder's art, sets up the work and confuses the landmarks and leads the eyes into error with the winding of the varied ways.
162Just as the Phrygian Maeander plays in its clear waters and flows back and forth with doubtful course and, running to meet itself, sees the waters that are yet to come, and, turned now towards its source, now towards the open sea, works its uncertain waters: so Daedalus fills the countless ways with wandering. 167And he himself was scarcely able to get back to the threshold: so great is the deceit of the building. 169After he had shut in there the double shape of bull and young man, and the monster, twice fed on Athenian blood, was overcome by the third lot, drawn again after nine years, and when the difficult door, never retraced by any of those before, was found by the rewinding of the thread with the maiden's help, at once the son of Aegeus, having carried off the daughter of Minos, to Dia