BEWITCH Copy link • BEWITCHfascinare, effascinare (PROP., by “an evil eye,” fascinus: then also by words and other means which should be expressed, visu, lingua, voce atque lingua); incantare (by spells: first in Apul., for incantati lapilli in Hor. has not this meaning). An eye bewitches my lambs, oculus mihi fascinat agnos. Fig. capere, rapere, delinire, permulcere: of bewitching beauty (puella, etc.), cujus forma rapit (after Propertius, 2, 26, 44), or pulchritadine, forma, venustate insignis.