Lynceus

Reading notes

• The Epistles §1.1 Lynceus

  An Argonaut of myth proverbial for piercing eyesight.

• The Satires §1.2 the eyes of Lynceus

  Lynceus, the Argonaut proverbial for superhumanly keen sight; set against Hypsaea, proverbial for blindness, to mock the lover who is sharp-eyed for charms and blind to faults.