Crossword-Solution: OCULUS 6 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

And the eyes of witches are said to be assailant and hurtful:-- "Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos." ["Some eye, I know not whose is bewitching my tender lambs." --Virgil, Eclog., iii.

And the eyes of witches are said to be assailant and hurtful:-- “Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos.” [“Some eye, I know not whose is bewitching my tender lambs.” --Virgil, Eclog., iii.

Virgil expresses this mode of sorcery to the letter, when his shepherd says-- 'Nescio quis teneros _oculus_ mihi fascinat agnos?' Precisely in that way it was that the British witch operated.

Roaming its galleries and leaning from its windows he exclaimed with Job:[3] '_Quare de vulvâ eduxisti me? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret_.' What the Romans, emasculated by luxury and priest rule, what the Cardinals and prelates, lapped in sensuality and sloth, were made to suffer during this long agony, can scarcely be described.

This also gives us a probable reason of the so much admired _Phænomena_, of the _Oculus Mundi_, an _Oval_ stone, which commonly looks like white Alabaster, but being laid a certain time in Water, it grows _pellucid_, and transparent, and being suffer’d to lie again dry, it by degrees loses that transparency, and becomes white as before.