person
Lynceus
also: Lynceum
Mythological Argonaut, son of Aphareus, proverbial for superhumanly keen eyesight (said to see through wood and earth). Cicero uses 'lynx-eyed' as a byword for sharpness of perception in Fam. 9.2.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 9.2 §2 But who is so lynx-eyed that in such darkness he does not stumble somewhere
Lynceus was a hero of Greek myth proverbial for piercing eyesight (said to see through solid objects); 'lynx-eyed' was a stock metaphor for sharp perception, here applied ruefully to the impossibility of seeing clearly amid the political 'darkness' after the civil war.