perhaps be intended to diminish the force of the very expressive ⁂ in the verb of striking. But I believe that this passage may fairly be illustrated by the words of Lucretius IV, 324 and following:— Splendida porro oculi fugitant vitantque tueri, Sol etiam caecat, contra si tendere pergas. Praeterea splendor quicumque est acer adurit Saepe oculos ideo quod semina possidet ignis Multa, dolorem oculis quae gignunt insinuando.