For this crime they were condemned to the task of forever trying to draw water with vessels without any bottoms. […] He hears and judges each committed crime, Inquires into the manner, place, and time; The conscious wretch must all his acts reveal, Loth to confess, unable to conceal; From the first moment of his vital breath, To the last hour of unrepenting death.”

Daedalus soon became afraid of what the people of Athens might do if they learned of his crime.