This is why the sea there is named Ikarion for him. While Daidalos survived onto land, Ikaros died. And while they were sailing with the Kretan wind, they flipped over into the sea. Then they understood that they were being pursued and there was a furious and driving wind, they seemed to be flying.
When Minos found out, he sent ships to pursue him. What it really means, then, is the following kind of thing.ĭaidalos, when he was in prison, escaped through a small window and hauled down his son too once he got on a boat, he left. It is impossible to think that a person flies, even one who has prosthetic wings. “People claim that Minos imprisoned Daidalos and Ikaros, his son, for a certain reason, but that Daidalos, after he fashioned wings as prosthetics for both of them, flew off with Ikaros. Phanodicos Deliacon Daedalum propter supradictas causas fugientem navem conscendisse et, cum imminerent qui eum sequebantur, intendisse pallium ad adiuvandum ventos et sic evasisse: illos vero qui insequebantur reversos nuntiasse pinnis illum evasisse. When they got back, those who were following him said he had escaped them with wings.”
“Phanodikos says that Daidalos-on account of the aforementioned reasons-went on a ship as he was fleeing and when those who were pursuing him drew near, he spread wide a piece of cloth for gaining the help of the winds and escaped them in this way. Servius Danielis, Commentary on the Aeneid, 6, 14
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