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Alciato Emblem 104: Source in Greek Anthology 16.107 (trans Paton, V, 219)
JulianusIn the preceding, the waxen wings caused the death of the original Icarus, and now the sculptor's wax (the wax he used to make the model for the bronze cast) has restored him. When he says that Icarus will give his "name to the bath" he is making an ironic reference to the Icarian Sea, which had been named after Icarus. Immediately following this epigram in the Greek Anthology there is another, 16.108 (trans Paton, V, 221), by the same author, on the same subject:
Icarus, remember thou art of bronze, and let neither art nor the pair of wings on thy shoulders delude thee; for if, when alive, thou didst fall into the depths of the sea, how canst thou wish to fly when formed of bronze?