Yes, indeed, my wax wings felt a little melty when tackling that august-Augustan?

All the others' wax wings melted and they soon fell away.

The Greek had wax wings.

He wrote many clever things about the Tower of Babel that could not reach heaven and about Icarus who flopped on his wax wings.

The doomed Icarus, flying recklessly close to the sun on his wax wings, dreamed nobly for the good of mankind, and Mr. Sanchez has made a fervently hopeful case that such a spirit is not mythic at all.

A legend about a boy who flew too high on wax wings and was punished by the gods for his ambition.

One is of the mythological hero Theseus fleeing the labyrinth; the other, of Daedalus and his son Icarus taking flight on wax wings.

The boy who escaped from the Labyrinth with his father on wax wings appears as a complete nut (he was "brain-fried" by flying too close to the Sun).