I. Lit., the ear as the organ of hearing, while auricula is the external ear, τὸ οὖς, Enn. ap. Non. p. 506, 1; Cato, R. R. 157, 16; Lucr. 4, 486; Plaut. Pers. 4, 9, 11; Vulg. Eccl. 1, 8; “v. antestor.—In comic style: Face, sis, vocivas aedīs aurium,” make the chambers of your ears vacant, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 52; cf. aedes.—Hence (usu. plur., aures): “adhibere,” to be attentive, to listen to, Plaut. Cas. 2, 8, 41; Cic. Arch. 3, 5: “arrigere,” Ter. And. 5, 4, 30; Verg. A. 1, 152: “erigere,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 3; id. Sull. 11: “admovere aurem,” Ter. Phorm. 5, 6, 28; Cic. de Or. 2, 36, 153: “dare,” to lend an ear, listen, id. Att. 1, 4; Sen. Hippol. 413; Val. Fl. 7, 419: “dederet,” Cic. Arch. 10, 26: “applicare,” Hor. C. 3, 11, 8; id. C. S. 72: praebere aures, Liv 38, 52, 11; “40, 8, 3: praebuimus longis ambagibus aures,” Ov. M. 3, 692; 5, 334; 6, 1; 15, 465; and: praebere aurem (esp. in the signif., to incline the ears in order to hear, to listen to), Ov. M. 7, 821; Plin. Ep. 2, 14, 8; Suet. Calig. 22; Hor. S. 1, 1, 22; Prop. 3, 14, 15; Vulg. Job, 6, 28 al.; so, “inclinare aurem,” ib. 4 Reg. 19, 16; ib. Psa. 30, 3: “auribus accipere,” i. e. to hear, Plaut. Trin. 4, 1, 9; Ter. Hec. 3, 3, 3; Lucr. 4, 982; 6, 164; Cic. de Or 1, 50, 218; Ov. M. 10, 62 al.: “auribus percipite,” Vulg. Judith, 5, 3; ib. Psa. 16, 2: “te cupidā captat aure maritus,” Cat. 61, 54; so, “auribus aëra captat,” Verg. A. 3, 514: “auribus haurire,” Ov. M. 13, 787; 14, 309: “bibere aure,” Hor. C. 2, 13, 32 al.: “obtundere,” Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 120: “tundere,” id. Poen. 1, 3, 25: “lacessere,” Lucr. 4, 597: “tergere,” id. 6, 119: “allicere,” id. 6, 183: “ferire,” Cic. de Or. 2, 84, 344: “implere,” Tac. H. 1, 90 et saep.—Particular phrases: in or ad aurem, also in aure, dicere, admonere, etc., to say something in the ear, softly or in secret, to whisper in the ear: in aurem Pontius, Scipio, inquit, vide quid agas, Cic. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 3, 12; so Hor. S. 1, 9, 9; Mart. 1, 90; Petr. 28, 5: “ut Voluptati ministrarent et eam tantum ad aurem admonerent,” Cic. Fin. 2, 21, 69: in aure dictare, Juv 11, 59: aurem vellere, to pull, as an admonition: “Cynthius aurem Vellit et admonuit,” i. e. admonished, reminded, Verg. E. 6, 3; so, “pervellere,” Sen. Ben. 4, 36; id. Ep. 94: dare or servire auribus, to gratify the ears, to flatter, Treb. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16; Caes. B. C. 2, 27: in utramvis or in dextram aurem dormire, to sleep soundly, i. e. to be unconcerned, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 101 (cf. Menaud. ap. Gell. 2, 23: ᾿Επ̓ἀμφοτέραν... μέλλει καθευδήσειν); Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 122; Plin. Ep. 4, 29: aures alicujus aperire (eccl. Lat., after the Heb.), to open one's ears, i. e. to restore his hearing, Vulg. Marc. 7, 35.—
II. Meton.
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The hearing, so far as it judges of the euphony of a discourse: “offendent aures, quarum est judicium superbissimum,” Cic. Or. 44, 150; so Auct. ad Her. 4, 23, 32: “Atticorum aures teretes et religiosae,” Cic. Or. 9, 27; so id. Brut. 32, 124; id. Font. 6; Hor. A. P. 387.—
B. Also, from its shape, the ear of a plough, the mould- or earthboard by which the furrow is widened and the earth turned back, Verg. G. 1, 172; cf. Voss ad h. 1.; Smith, Dict. Antiq., and Pall. 1, 43.
