Daedălĭōn — Lewis & Short
Daedălĭōn, ōnis, m., *daidali/wn,
I a king of Trachis, son of Lucifer, and brother of Ceyx, who was changed into a hawk, Ov. M. 11, 295 sq.
1 † daedălus, a, um, adj., = dai/dalos, artificial, skilful (poet. and in postclass. prose).
I Act.: Minerva, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 68, 6 Müll. (Fr. Inc. Lib. xxi. Vahl.): daedalam a varietate rerum artificiorumque dictam esse apud Lucretium terram, apud Ennium Minervam, apud Vergilium Circen, facile est intellegere, cum Graece daida/llein significet variare, Paul. ex Fest. p. 68 Müll.: Circe ("ingeniosa," Serv.), Verg. A. 7, 282.—
B With gen.:
verborum daedala lingua,the fashioner of words, Lucr. 4, 549; cf.:
natura daedala rerum,id. 5, 234.—
II Pass., artificially contrived, variously adorned, ornamented, etc., daida/leos: tecta (apium), skilfully constructed:
signa,Lucr. 5, 145:
tellus,variegated, id. 1, 7; 228; Verg. G. 4, 179; cf.:
carmina chordis,artfully varied on strings, id. 2, 505.— * Adv.: daedăle, skilfully, Jul. Val. Res gest. A. M. 3, 86.