eye (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. ŏcŭlus (dimin. ŏcellus, used by way of endearment2. lūmen, ĭnis, n. (in prose only pl.)3. ăcies, ēi (lit. a sharp edge4. (when e.s = sight) conspectus, ūs • eye (subs.): 1. ŏcŭlus (dimin. ŏcellus, used by way of endearment: Pl.: Cat.): in most senses and applications of the Eng.: blue e.s, caerulei o., Tac.: jet black e.s, nigri o., Hor.: gray (gleaming) e.s, caesii o., Cic.: beautiful e.s, venusti o., Cic.: prominent e.s, o. prominentes, Cic.: hideous (ghastly) e.s, foedi o., Sall.: to open the e.s, oculos aperire, Cic.; wide, o. diducere, Quint.: to shut the e.s, o. operire, premere (v. to close): to become blind with one e., altero o. capi, Liv. 22, 2, extr.: to cast the e.s upon any one, o. conjicere in aliquem, Cic.: to turn away the e.s from any thing, o. ab aliqua re dejicere, Cic. Fig.: e.s in peacocks' tails, oculi caudae pavonum, Plin. 13, 15, 30: to see any thing with the e.s of the mind, mentis oculis aliquid videre, Cic. Or. 29, 101. 2. lūmen, ĭnis, n. (in prose only pl.): (Democritus) having lost the use of his e.s, luminibus amissis, Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114: robbed of his (single) e., cui l. ademptum, Virg.: Ov. (Simly lux is sometimes used, but much less freq.: effossae vestigia lucis [of Oedipus], Stat. Theb. 11, 585: Ov.) 3. ăcies, ēi (lit. a sharp edge: hence the e.s as seeing distant or minute objects): such subtlety as to elude the e., tanta tenuitas ut aciem fugiat, Cic. Tusc. 1, 12, 50: hither now turn thy two e.s, huc geminas nunc flecte acies, Virg.: Ov. Very often fig. of the mind: if the e. (of the mind) is so kept as not to be blinded by error, si ejus a. ita curata est ut ne erroribus caecetur, Cic. Tusc. 5, 13, 39. 4. (when e.s = sight) conspectus, ūs: before the very e.s of our army, in c. exercitus nostri, Caes. B. G. 1, 11: as far as the e.s could reach, quo longissime conspectum oculi ferebant, Liv. 1, 18: v. sight, presence. Phr.: blind of one e., luscus, Liv. (v. ONE-EYED): having a cast in the e., strabo, paetus (v. squinting, cast, subs. V.): having sore or bleared e.s, lippus, Hor.: with their e.s bathed in tears, lacrimis obortis, Virg. Aen. 11, 41 (elsewhere, lacrymis oculos suffusa, of Venus, Aen. 1, 228): to make the e.s water, delacrymationem facere, Plin.: watering of the eyes (as a malady), delacrymationes, Plin.: smoke that makes the e.s water, lacrymosus fumus, Hor. S. 1, 5, 80: to do any thing with one's e.s open (fig.), aliquid scientem, prudentem facere (v. knowingly).