Dædalus, who could not stop to rescue his son, continued steadily on his course, and, attempting no experiments with his frail wings, finally landed safely in Sicily, where he established himself again, professionally, under the royal patronage of Cocalus, king of the Sicani. Here he did most excellent work, until king Minos, his old enemy, found him out, and began to make it unpleasant for him again. Minos, hearing that Dædalus was in Sicily, sailed with a great fleet to that island, but fortunately for the architect, his enemy was murdered as soon as he arrived there by Cocalus or his daughter. In the mean time Dædalus, anticipating the trouble that was in store for him, again made an escape, this time to Sardinia, where he tarried a while, but finally visited other countries, notably Egypt. These are the substantial facts of Dædalus’s career, as contained in the earlier legends, but later Greek writers tell a much more fanciful and improbable story of his life, which there is no urgent necessity to believe, as the one mentioned is quite fanciful enough and probably more authentic. They say, among other things, that Dædalus was an astrologer, and that he taught his son that science, who, soaring above plain truths, lost his wits and was drowned in an abyss of difficulties. Dædalus may have been an astrologer and may have been other things as well, but that he was an architect cannot be doubted from the fact that so many buildings are ascribed to him. Among his works may be mentioned the Colymbethra, or reservoir in Sicily, from which the river Alabon flowed into the sea; another an impregnable city near Agrigentum, in which was the royal palace of Cocalus; still another a cave in the territory of Selinus, in which the vapor arising from a subterranean fire was received in such a way as to answer for a vapor bath. He enlarged the summit of Mount Eryx for a foundation for the temple of Venus, and he is said to have been the author of the temples of Apollo at Capua and Cumæ, and the temple of Artemis Britomartis in Crete. In Egypt he was the architect of a very beautiful propylæum, or vestibule to the temple of Hephæstus at Memphis, for which he was rewarded by being permitted to erect in it a statue of himself, the work of his own hands. As a sculptor he also executed many works of art—but the architectural side of his career can only be considered here. It will not be out of place, however, to mention some of the inventions ascribed to him to assist the mechanic. It is claimed for him that he was an expert carpenter, having been taught that trade by Minerva, and that he originated the axe, the plumb-line, the auger and glue. Dædalus, in fact, seems to have personified the earliest Grecian art, and his name, which, when translated, signifies “ingenious,” or “inventive,” stands for that period in Greece when form and shape and expression were given inanimate substances by the use of tools and mechanical appliances.