Hyginus FabulaeFab. on Minotaur

    Pasiphae. 40
    Pasiphaë was a daughter of the Sun and the wife of Minos; she had not offered sacrifices to Venus for many years. Therefore, Venus cast upon her a perverse love, namely that she have sexual relations with a bull which she herself was lusting for. When Daedalus came as an exile, she sought his assistance for this purpose. He designed for her a wooden heifer and covered it with the skin of a real heifer. Inside this contraption she mated with the bull. From this act of intercourse she bore the Minotaur, a beast with a bovine head upon the body of a human. Next Daedalus designed for the Minotaur a labyrinth with no possible exit and confined the beast in it. Minos learned of this activity and cast Daedalus into jail; but, Pasiphaë freed him from bondage. Thus Daedalus designed wings for himself and his son Icarus, put them on, and they flew away. Because Icarus flew too high, when the wax was softened by the sun, plunged into the sea with was named thereafter the Icarian Sea. Daedalus flew on to King Cocalus on the island of Sicily. Some say that Theseus, when he killed the Minotaur, repatriated Daedalus to Athens, his homeland.
    
    Minos. 41
    Minos was the son of Jupiter and Europa. When he was making war against the Athenians his son Androgeus was killed in battle. After he defeated the Athenians the tributes to the Minoans came into existence. Minos decreed, though, that the Athenians should send each year seven of their children to be the food for the Minotaur. After Theseus had come from Troezen and heard that the city was burdened with such a ruinous situation, he voluntarily pledged to go to the Minotaur. When his father was sending him away, Aegeus instructed him to hoist a white sail on his ship, should he return victorious; those who were sent to the Minotaur, conversely, typically sailed under a black sail.
    
    Theseus in the Labyrinth. 42
After Theseus arrived at Crete, he was so admired by Ariadne the daughter of Minos that she chose to betray her brother and save the life of the stranger. She did this by showing Theseus the way out of the labyrinth. When Theseus had entered it and slain the Minotaur, he followed Ariadne's instruction to roll up a string and exited to safety. Because she had given him her loyalty, he took her away to have as his bride.    
    
         — trans. RTM
    Pasiphae. 40
    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.
    Minos. 41
    Minos Iouis et Europae filius cum Atheniensibus belligerauit, cuius filius Androgeus in pugna est occisus. qui posteaquam Athenienses uicit, uectigales Minois esse coeperunt; instituit autem ut anno uno quoque septenos liberos suos Minotauro ad epulandum mitterent. (2) Theseus posteaquam a Troezene uenerat et audit quanta calamitate ciuitas afficeretur, uoluntarie se ad Minotaurum pollicitus est ire. (3) quem pater cum mitteret, praedixit ei ut si uictor reuerteretur uela candida in nauem haberet; qui autem ad Minotaurum mittebantur uelis atris nauigabant.
    thesevs apvd minotavrvm. 42
    Theseus posteaquam Cretam uenit ab Ariadne Minois filia est adamatus adeo ut fratrem proderet et hospitem seruaret, ea enim Theseo monstrauit labyrinthi exitum, quo Theseus cum introisset et Minotaurum interfecisset, Ariadnes monitu licium reuoluendo foras est egressus, eamque, quod fidem ei dederat, in coniugio secum habiturus auexit.