Ovid

“ I warn you to travel in the middle course, Icarus, so that the waves
may not weigh down your wings if you go too low,
and so that the sun will not scorch your wings if you go too high.
Stay between both. ”

“ dīxit et ignōtās animum dīmittit in artēs
nātūramque novat. ”

“ He gave to his son kisses
not to be repeated, and having lifted himself up on his wings
he flies before and he fears for his comrade. Just as a bird
who has led forth a tender offspring from a high nest into the air,
and encourages [him] to follow and instructs [him] in the destructive arts
and he moves himself and looks back at the wings of his son.
Someone while catching fish with a trembling rod,
either a shepherd leaning on his staff or a plowman on a plow
saw these men and was stunned, and they who were able to snatch the sky,
he believed were gods. ”