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
strychnos: i, m., = στρύχνος,
I a kind of nightshade, Plin. 27, 8, 44, § 68.—Called also trychnos, Plin. 21, 31, 105, § 177; App. Herb. 74.