aphaerema

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οἷς τὰ ὁρώμενα τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐνδίδωσι, καὶ οἷον ὑπήνεμα διὰ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὰ πάθη ταῖς ψυχαῖς εἰστοξεύονται → who taketh his beginning and occasion from something which is seen, and then his passion, as though wind borne, shoots through the eyes and into the heart

Source

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ăphaerĕma: ătis, n., = ἀφαίρεμα>,
I a coarse kind of grits, Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 2.