Daedalus et Īcarus

Servus cōnsilium effugiendī nocte excōgitāvit.

In the night the slave devised a plan of escape.

Haud facile est cōnsilium ad effugiendum.

A plan for escaping is by no means easy

Via aperta est ad effugiendum.

A road lies open for escaping.

Nōn est tempus excōgitandī.

It is not the time for devising.

Cōnsilium effugiendī bonum est.

The plan of escaping is good.

Nēmō eum iūvit, sed sōlus viam effugiendī invēnit.

Nobody helped him, but alone he found a way of escaping.

Servī lībertātem quaerunt, quia līberī esse volunt.

The slaves seek freedom because they want to be free

Nēmō eum in effugiendō iuvat.

Nobody helps him escape.

Nōn est tempus inveniendī.

It is not the time for searching.

Viam ad effugiendum ē carcere quaerit

He seeks a way to escape from the prison.

Ancilla artem legendī nōn ex librīs, sed audiendō accēpit.

The maidservant received the art of reading not from books, but by listening.

Puella studiōsa discendī omnēs librōs legit.

The girl eager to learn reads all the books

Magister artem canendī docet.

The master teaches the art of singing.

Discendō ars venit.

It is by learning that skill comes.

Puer studiōsus discendī est.

The boy is eager to learn.

Igne cēram mollīvit, deinde pennās in lacertīs fīxit.

With fire he softened the wax, then fastened the feathers on his arms.

Ignis cēram mollit, manum quoque ūrit.

The fire softens the wax it burns the hand too

Ignis ad molliendum necessārius est.

Fire is needed for softening.

Avis ālīs sē levandō volat.

The bird flies by lifting itself with its wings.

Cēra bona est ad pennās fīgendum

Wax is good for fastening the feathers.

In summō āere avis terram dēspiciendō dēlectātur; nōs eam suspicimus.

In the upper air the bird delights in looking down at the earth; we look up at it.

In summō monte nix est, in īnfimō flōrēs.

On the top of the mountain there is snow at the bottom flowers

Parva fenestra avī ad ēvolandum satis est.

A small window is enough for the bird to fly out.

Avis terram dēspiciendō dēlectātur.

The bird delights in looking down at the earth.

In summum caelum suspicimus.

We look up at the top of the sky.

Nāvis celeris nōbīs vidētur, sed ventus eam sequī potest.

The ship seems swift to us, but the wind can follow her.

Pater cautus est, fīlius audāx et nimis temerārius.

The father is cautious the son bold and too reckless

Nāvis celeris est.

The ship is swift.

Puer mihi audāx vidētur.

The boy seems bold to me.

Ars imitandī facilis nōn est.

The art of imitating is not easy.

Fīnem persequendī dominus facit, quoniam eōs cōnsequī nōn potest.

The master makes an end of pursuing, since he cannot catch up with them.

Dominus fugientēs persequitur, sed nēmō eōs cōnsequitur.

The master pursues those who flee but nobody catches them

Dominus fīnem persequendī facit.

The master makes an end of pursuing.

Caput quatiendō puer respondet.

By shaking his head, the boy answers.

Hic cāsus puerō accidit.

This fall happened to the boy.

Ars mūtandī ingēns est, vērum nēmō nātūram suam mūtat.

The art of changing is huge, but nobody changes his own nature.

Multitūdō ingēns hominum trāns flūmen it.

A huge crowd of people goes across the river

Ars mūtandī ingēns est.

The art of changing is huge.

Crās reliquam partem audiēs.

Tomorrow you will hear the remaining part.

Multitūdō ingēns in viā stat.

A huge crowd stands in the road.