he say; {when} he
beheld his wings in the waters, and {then} he cursed his own arts; and
he buried his body in a tomb, and the land was called from the name of
him buried there. As he was laying the body of his unfortunate son in
the tomb, a prattling partridge beheld him from a branching
holm-oak,[22] and, by its notes, testified its delight. 'Twas then but a
single bird {of its kind}, and never seen in former years, and, lately
made a bird, was a grievous reproof, Daedalus, to thee. For, ignorant {of
the decrees} of fate, his sister had entrusted her son to be instructed
by him, a boy who had passed twice six birthdays, with a mind eager for
instruction. 'Twas he, too, who took the backbones observed in the
middle of the fish, for an example, and cut {a} continued {row of} teeth
in iron, with a sharp edge, and {thus} discovered the use of the saw.

He was the first, too, that bound two arms of iron to one centre, that,
being divided {and} of equal length, the one part might stand fixed,
{and} the other might describe a circle. Daedalus was envious, and threw
him headlong from the sacred citadel of Minerva, falsely pretending that
he had fallen {by accident}. But Pallas, who favours ingenuity, received
him, and made him a bird; and, in the middle of the air, he flew upon
wings. Yet the vigour of his genius, once so active, passed into his
wings and into his feet; his name, too, remained the same as before. Yet
this bird does not raise its body aloft, nor make its nest in the
branches and the lofty tops {of trees, but} flies near the ground, and
lays its eggs in hedges: and, mindful of its former fall, it dreads the
higher regions.

[Footnote 16: _His prolonged exile._--Ver. 184. Daedalus had been
exiled for murdering one of his scholars in a fit of jealousy;
probably Perdix, his nephew, whose story is related by Ovid.]

[Footnote 17: _Helice._--Ver. 207. This was another name of the
Constellation called the Greater Bear, into which Calisto had been
changed.]

[Footnote 18: _Samos._--Ver. 220. This island, off the coast of
Caria in Asia Minor, was famous as the birth-place of Juno, and
the spot where she was married to Jupiter. She had a famous temple
there.]

[Footnote 19: _Lebynthus._--Ver. 222. This island was one of the
Cyclades, or, according to some writers, one of the Sporades,
a group that lay between the Cyclades and Crete.]

[Footnote 20: _Calymne.