auris (abl., aure, auri), is, f. [v. audio].
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. 933; Verg. A. 1, 152: erigere, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 3; id. Sull. 11: admovere aurem, Ter. Phorm. 868; 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; Liv. 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. 363; 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. 342 (cf. Menand. ap. Gell. 2, 23: ἐπ᾽ ἀμφοτέραν... 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.
A
α 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.—
β Hearers , auditors : Cum tibi sol tepidus plures admoverit aures, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 19.—*
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.