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qua uisum est uentus et
For the proverb, see Otto folium 1; and from Ovid compare Am II xvi 45-46 'uerba puellarum, foliis leuiora caducis, / inrita qua uisum est uentus et unda ferunt', Her V 109-10 'tu leuior foliis tum cum sine pondere suci / mobilibus uentis arida facta uolant', and Fast III 481-82 (Ariadne speaking) 'Bacche leuis leuiorque tuis quae tempora cingunt / frondibus'.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid

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