Quam diū quisquam erit quī tē dēfendēre audeat, vīvēs, et vīvēs ita ut nunc vīvis, multīs meīs et firmīs praesidiīs obsessus nē commōvēre tē contrā rem pūblicam possīs. Multōrum tē etiam oculī et aurēs nōn sentientem, sīcut adhūc fēcērunt, speculābuntur atque custōdient.
As long as one person exists who can dare to defend you, you shall live; but you shall live as you do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be able to stir one finger against the republic: many eyes and ears shall still observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, though you shall not perceive them.
ā saeculō nōn audiērunt neque auribus percēpērunt oculus nōn vīdit Deus absque tē quae praeparāstī expectantibus tē.
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “oculus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 425
Further reading
“oculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“oculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
oculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
oculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London:Macmillan and Co.
to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky: oculos tollere, attollere ad caelum
I am losing my eyesight and getting deaf: neque auribus neque oculis satis consto
to turn one's gaze on; to regard: oculos conicere in aliquem
to look in every direction: oculos circumferre
to gaze intently all around: in omnes partes aciem (oculorum) intendere
to draw every one's eyes upon one: omnium oculos (et ora) ad se convertere
to turn one's eyes (ears, attention) towards an object: oculos (aures, animum) advertere ad aliquid
his eyes are always fixed on some one's face: oculi in vultu alicuius habitant
to keep one's eyes on the ground: oculos figere in terra and in terram
to feast one's eyes with the sight of..: oculos pascere aliqua re (also simply pasci aliqua re)
to turn one's gaze away from an object: oculos deicere, removere ab aliqua re
to close the eyes of a dying person: oculos operire (morienti)
to dazzle a person: oculorum aciem alicui praestringere (also simply praestringere)
to lose one's sight: oculos, lumina amittere
to deprive a person of his eyes: oculis privare aliquem
to be blind: oculis captum esse (vid. sect. IV. 6., note auribus, oculis...)
something presents itself to my vision: ante oculos aliquid versatur
to picture a thing to oneself; to imagine: oculis, ante oculos (animo) proponere aliquid
picture to yourselves the circumstances: ante oculos vestros (not vobis) res gestas proponite
to see with the mind's eye: oculis mentis videre aliquid
to cherish as the apple of one's eye: in oculis aliquem ferre
to cherish as the apple of one's eye: aliquis est mihi in oculis
to go out of sight, disappear: abire ex oculis, e conspectu alicuius
to come within the sphere of the senses: sub sensum or sub oculos, sub aspectum cadere
the world of sense, the visible world: res sensibus or oculis subiectae (De Fin. 5. 12. 36)
the world of sense, the visible world: res quas oculis cernimus
I haven't had a wink of sleep: somnum oculis meis non vidi (Fam. 7. 30)
a vague notion presents itself to my mind: aliquid animo meo obversatur (cf. sect. III, s. v. oculi)
to bring a thing vividly before the eyes: ante oculos ponere aliquid
to represent a thing vividly: oculis or sub oculos, sub aspectum subicere aliquid
to scrutinise, examine closely: perlustrare, lustrare oculis aliquid
“oculus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
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