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Ovid: The Metamorphoses, translated by Horace Gregory. New American Library. Copyright © 1958 by The Viking Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA, Inc.

So Daedalus turned his mind to subtle craft,

An unknown art that seemed to outwit nature.

Ovid, The Metamorphoses

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