Book 6.20-31
The doors of the temple are engraved with the story of the Minotaur and Icarus.
In foribus letum Androgeo: tum pendere poenas
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Cecropidae iussi – miserum! – septena quotannis
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corpora natorum; stat ductis sortibus urna.
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Contra elata mari respondet Gnosia tellus:
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hic crudelis amor tauri, suppostaque furto
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Pasiphae, mixtumque genus prolesque biformis
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Minotaurus inest, Veneris monumenta nefandae;
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hic labor ille domus et inextricabilis error;
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magnum reginae sed enim miseratus amorem
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Daedalus ipse dolos tecti ambagesque resolvit,
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caeca regens filo vestigia. Tu quoque magnam
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partem opere in tanto, sineret dolor, Icare, haberes.
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