audĭentĭa, ae, f. [audio], a hearing, a listening to something; audience, attention; mostly in the phrase, audientiam facere, to cause to give attention, to procure a hearing.
I Lit: exsurge, praeco; fac populo audientiam, i. e. command silence , * Plaut. Poen. prol. 11: Illi praeco faciebat audientiam, Auct ad Her. 4, 55, 68; audientiam facere praeconem jussit, Liv. 43, 16: quantam denique audientiam orationi meae improbitas illius factura, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 13, 42; so id. Sen. 9, 28; id. de Or. 2, 80, 325: tribuere, to give a hearing , Ap. Met. 3, 4, 12; praebere, Cod. 7, 19, 7: impertiri, ib. 2, 13, 1.—
II Meton.
A The faculty of hearing , hearing , Prud. στεφ. 954. —
B The ears (abstr. for concr.), Arn. 3, p. 117; 5, p. 178.