Crossword-Solution: OCULO 5 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Non sensus vegetans, non me ratio arguet, Non indoles exculti clara ingenii; Sed perfidi sycophantae supercilium Absque lance, statera, trutina, oculo, Miraculum armati segete.

Tertii verso quater orbe lustri, Quid theatrales tibi, Crispe, pompae? Quam decet canos male literates Sera voluptas! Tene mulceri fidibus canoris? Tene cantorum modulis stupere? Tene per pictas, oculo elegante, Currere formas? Inter aequales, sine felle liber, Codices veri studiosus inter Rectius vives.

Horace thua alludes to it:-- "Non isthic obliquo oculo mea commoda quisquam Limat; non odio obscuro morsuque venenat." Among the diseases given by a glance are ophthalmia and jaundice, say the ancients; and in these cases, the fascinator loses the disease as his victim takes it A similar peculiarity is to be remarked in the superstition of the basilisk, who kills, if he sees first, but when he is seen first, dies.

Redditum Cyri solio Phraaten Dissidens plebi numero beatorum Eximit Virtus populumque falsis Dedocet uti 20 Vocibus, regnum et diadema tutum Deferens uni propriamque laurum, Quisquis ingentis oculo inretorto Spectat acervos.

Sed nec propter credentes nec sapientes satis mouebor; tamen vt diuersa Dei opera qui respicere non possunt oculo, saltem legant, vel audiant ex hoc scripto.