Careful Words

visible (adj.)

  It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,—being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."

Athenaeus (Circa 200 a d): The Deipnosophists. vi. 23.

Yet from those flames

No light, but rather darkness visible.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 62.