Syra finishes the story, saying that the outraged Minos locked Daedalus and Icarus into the labyrinth. To escape, Daedalus built wings for himself and Icarus. They successfully flew from Crete, but Icarus' wings melted when he flew too close to the sun, and he drowned in the sea.
Grammar:
- Gerunds: (Verbal Noun)
- Genitive: "hopes of ___ing"
- Ablative: "for the sake of ___ing" or after ablative prepositions
- Dative: "by ___ing"
- Accusative: used to show purpose, often after accusative prepositions like "ad"
- Formation: present active infinitive base + nd + case endings
- All gerunds are considered neuter nouns and there is NO nominative case and NO plural form.
- Perfect Participle:
- The perfect participle is always found in the last principal part of the verb. Like all participles, they come from verbs but act like adjectives. Perfect participles end in -tus, -a, -um or -sus, -a, -um.
Vocabulary:
- audāx, audācis (audacious, bold)
- carcer, carceris (prison)
- quatere (to shake)
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