Met. 8.152Vōta Iovī Mīnōs taurōrum corpora centum
solvit, ut ēgressus ratibus Cūrētida terram
contigit, spoliīs decorāta est rēgia fīxīs.Minos 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. Met. 8.155Crēverat opprobrium generis, foedumque patēbat
mātris adulterium mōnstrī novitāte biformis.The disgrace of his family had grown, and the mother's foul adultery was laid bare by the strangeness of the two-formed monster. Met. 8.157Dēstinat hunc Mīnōs thalamō removēre pudōrem
multiplicīque domō caecīsque inclūdere tēctīs.Minos resolves to remove this shame from his house and to shut it in a many-chambered dwelling, under blind roofs. Met. 8.159Daedalus ingeniō fabrae celeberrimus artis
160pōnit opus turbatque notās et lūmina flexū
dūcit in errōrem variārum ambāge viārum.Daedalus, 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.
Met. 8.162Nōn secus ac liquidīs Phrygius Maeandrus in undīs
lūdit et ambiguō lāpsū refluitque fluitque
occurrēnsque sibi ventūrās adspicit undās,
165et nunc ad fontēs, nunc ad mare versus apertum
incertās exercet aquās: ita Daedalus implet
innumerās errōre viās.Just 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. Met. 8.167Vixque ipse revertī
ad līmen potuit: tanta est fallācia tēctī.And he himself was scarcely able to get back to the threshold: so great is the deceit of the building. Met. 8.169Quō postquam geminam taurī iuvenisque figūram
170clausit, et Actaeō bis pāstum sanguine mōnstrum
tertia sors annīs domuit repetīta novēnīs,
utque ope virgineā nūllīs iterāta priōrum
iānua difficilis fīlō est inventa relēctō,
prōtinus Aegīdēs raptā Mīnōide DiamAfter 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