EAR Copy link • EARauris (used in the plur., when = “attention”): short ears (of a horse), aures applicatae (close to the head): large, fleshy ears, aures flaccidae praegravantesque: an attentive ear, aures avidae et capaces: to give anybody one’s ears, aures alicui dare, praebere, or dedere (Cic.): to prick up one’s ears, aures erigere or arrigere (☞ aurem substringere is quite poetical, Hor., Sat., 2, 5, 99): to seize hold of anybody by the ear, aliquem auriculis prehendere (Plaut.): to give anybody one’s ear, opponere auriculam (that he may touch it): praebere aurem alicui (that he may whisper into it). Ears tingle, aures tinniunt (Varr.). Box on the ear, alapa (with the flat hand); colaphus (with the fist): to box anybody’s ears, alapam alicui ducere, colaphum alicui ducere, infringere, or impingere, or (repeatedly) colaphis aliquem percutere: (proverbially) to send anybody away with a flea in his ear, scrupulum alicui injicere: to be over head and ears in debt, aere alieno obrutum or demersum esse; or (comedy) animam debere (Terentianus). I have no ears for that; I turn a deaf ear to that, aures ad aliquid surdae or clausae sunt; surdus sum in aliqua re; aliquid in aures non recipio, or accipio: to preach to deaf ears, surdo or surdis auribus canere (Verg., Ecl., 10, 8; Liv., 40, 8), surdo narrare fabulam (Ter. 2, 1, 10); frustra surdas aures fatigare (Curt. 9, 10, 16); verba hunt mortuo (Terentianus). To lay siege to anybody’s ears, alicujus aures obsidere (Liv.): to stun anybody’s ears, aures alicujus obtundere: to hang down his ears (of a horse, mule, etc.), demittere auriculam (i. e., put them back as a sign of | obstinacy): to have anybody’s ear, aditum ad alicujus aures habere: to find a willing ear, aliquis aures mihi dat: lend me your ears, erigite mentes auresque vestras, et me dicentem attendite: to offend or grate against anybody’s ears, aures offendere; aures or auriculas radere (Quint., Persius); aliquid aures fastidiunt or respuunt (Quint.). A report reaches my ears, aliquid ad aures meas pervenit or permanat (Cic.), ad aliquem permanat (Terentianus); aliquid ad me perfertur or defertur: critical ears, aures teretes or eruditae, teretes et religiosae: uncritical ears, aures hebetiores (Cic.), ineruditae (Quint.); aures imperitorum (Quint.): to open one’s ears to flattery, assentatoribus aures patefacere: to have one’s ears open to anything, aures patent alicui rei or ad aliquid (Cic.); to calumny, obtrectationem pronis auribus accipere: to get anybody’s ear, aditum sibi ad aures alicujus facere: a practical ear, aures tritae (Cic.): a very good ear (i. e., power of feeling harmony, etc.), aurium sensus fastidiosissimus; aures, quarum judicium est superbissimum: to have a good ear for music or harmony, numeros aure callere (Hor.): Drum of the ear, tympanum auris: a tumour on the ear, parotis: the orifice of the ear, foramen auris: the dirt or wax of the ear, aurium sordes: a disease in the ear, aurium morbus: to have diseased ears, ex auribus laborare: a ringing in the ear, sonitus aurium (Plin.). I have a ringing in my ears, aures mihi sonant. To whisper in anybody’s ear, alicui ad aurem or in aures insusurrare; in or ad aurem dicere (ad aurem, confidentially; in aurem, secretly and clandestinely; Handrianus, Turs., 1, 78); ad aurem admonere: to pluck anybody’s ear (for the purpose of warning him), aurem vellere (Verg.), pervellere (Sen.): to bring people about one’s ears, in odium offensionemque aliquorum irruere (Cic.): to set people together by the ears, discordiam concitare; dissensionem commovere (both Cic.): committere omnes inter se (Suet.): to fall together by the ears, rixari inter se, etc. [Vid: QUARREL.] Ear = handle, ansa. Dog’s-ear (in a book), plicatura. Ear of corn, etc., spica (the full ear, the fruit of the corn-stalk, without respect to its shape): arista (the prickly ear, the tip or uttermost part of the stalk, without respect to its substance, sometimes merely the prickles). ☞ The three forms, spica, spicus, spicum were in use; only of spicum, as Servius says, the sing. was rare (☞ Gernhard, Cic., Cat. Maj., 15, 51). The beard of an ear of corn, aristae; the ear has a beard, spica aristarum vallo rnunitur :the lowest part of the ear, urruncum (Varr., R.R., 1, 48, 3): an ear of corn without a beard, spica mutica: an ear of corn with a beard, spica aristata (Fest.): that has ears or anything like ears; e.g., a plant, spicatus: that bears ears, spicam ferens (poetically, spicifer): consisting of ears, made of ears, spiceus: to come into ear, spicam concipere: to put forth an ear, fundere frugem, spici ordine exstructam (in a descriptive passage; Cic., Cat. Maj., 15, 51): to gather ears of corn, spicas legere: the ears promise to be heavy this year, seges est spicis uberibus et crebris: a garland of ears of corn, sertum spiceum (which must be distinguished from a crown of ears of corn, corona spicea): a gleaning of ears of corn, spicilegium.