Passage 10.17.4
οἱ δὲ καὶ Δαίδαλον ἀποδρᾶναι τηνικαῦτα †καὶ οἴκου διὰ τὴν ἐπιστρατείαν τὴν Κρητῶν καὶ ἀποικίας ἐς τὴν Σαρδὼ μετασχεῖν τῷ Ἀρισταίῳ νομίζουσιν· ἔχοι δʼ ἂν λόγον οὐδένα Αὐτονόῃ τῇ Κάδμου συνοικήσαντι τῷ Ἀρισταίῳ Δαίδαλον ἢ ἀποικίας ἢ ἄλλου τινὸς μετεσχηκέναι, ὃς ἡλικίαν κατὰ Οἰδίποδα ἦν βασιλεύοντα ἐν Θήβαις. πόλιν δʼ οὖν οἰκίζουσιν οὐδεμίαν οὐδʼ οὗτοι, ὅτι ἀριθμῷ τε καὶ ἰσχύι ἐλάσσονες ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ἢ κατὰ πόλεως ἦσαν οἰκισμόν.
Some also believe that Daedalus escaped from home at this time, because of the expedition of the Cretans, and joined Aristaeus' colony to Sardinia. However, it does not seem reasonable at all that Daedalus, who was contemporary with Oedipus when he was king at Thebes, took part either in the colony or anything else alongside Aristaeus, who married Autonoe, daughter of Cadmus. In any case, these people too did not found any city, since it seems to me they were too few in number and insufficiently strong for settling a city.