Any good anagrams for eye beam?

In the physics inherited from Aristotle an eye beam generated in the eye was thought to be responsible for the sense of sight. The eye-beam darted by the imagined basilisk, for instance, was the agent of its lethal power, given the technical term extramission. The exaggerated eyes of fourth-century Roman emperors like Constantine the Great reflect this character. The concept found expression in poetry into the 17th century, most famously in John Donne's poem "The Extasie." Later in the century Newtonian optics and increased understanding of the structure of the eye rendered the old concept invalid, but it was revived as an aspect of monstrous superhuman capabilities in popular culture of the 20th century. The emission theory of sight seemed to be corroborated by geometry and was reinforced by Robert Grosseteste. Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis", read in the light of contemporary conceptions of vision, founds a rhetoric of like kindnesses and loving mutuality is predicates loving mutuality upon a conceit of visual reciprocation achieved in the exchange of eyebeams. In Algernon Swinburne's "Atalanta in Calydon" the conception is revived for poetic purposes, enriching the poem's pagan context in the Huntsman's invocation of Artemis:

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