Hyginus Fabulae 40
Pasiphaë
Pasiphaë was the daughter of the Sun and wife of Minos. She had not offered sacrifices to the goddess Venus for many years. Thus Venus cast before her an unspeakable love, namely that Pasiphae would love a bull which Venus herself loved. When Daedalus had come to this kingdom as an exile, he sought aid from the queen. He engineered for her a wooden heifer and covered it in the hide of a real heifer, in which she had sexual intercourse with the bull. From this act she gave birth to the Minotaur, a creature of bovine head and human body. Then Daedalus created for the Minotaur an inescapable labyrinth in which the creature was enclosed. Minos learned about the whole affair and cast Daedalus under arrest; but Pasiphaë freed him from fetters. Thus, Daedalus engineered wings for himself and for his son Icarus, put them on, and they both then flew away. Icarus began to fly rather high and, as the wax grew warm from the sun, plunged into the sea which is named the Icarian Sea after him. Daedalus flew onward to King Cocalus in the island of Sicily. Others say that when Theseus killed the Minotaur, he returned Daedalus back to Athens his homeland.
         —— trans by RTM


Pasiphaë

Pasiphae Solis filia uxor Minois sacra deae Veneris per aliquot annos non fecerat. ob id Venus amorem infandum illi obiecit, ut taurum quem ipsa amabat alia amaret. (2) in hoc Daedalus exsul cum uenisset, petiit ab ea auxilium. is ei uaccam ligneam fecit et uerae uaccae corium induxit, in qua illa cum tauro concubuit; ex quo compressu Minotaurum peperit capite bubulo parte inferiore humana. (3) tunc Daedalus Minotauro labyrinthum inextricabili exitu fecit, in quo est conclusus.(4) Minos re cognita Daedalum in custodiam coniecit, at Pasiphae eum uinculis liberauit; itaque Daedalus pennas sibi et Icaro filio suo fecit et accommodauit, et inde auolarunt. Icarus altius uolans, a sole cera calefacta, decidit in mare quod ex eo Icarium pelagus est appellatum. Daedalus peruolauit ad regem Cocalum in insulam Siciliam. (5) alii dicunt; Theseus cum Minotaurum occidit, Daedalum Athenas in patriam suam reduxit.