LISTEN Copy link • LISTENTo hearken, subauscultare aliquid; sermonem alicujus captare, aucupare, or sublegere (comedy): to listen at the door to a conversation, aure foribus admota sermonem captare (Ter., Phorm., 5, 6, 27, sqq.): he listened to all I said, subauscultando excepit voces meas et procul quid narrarem attendit (Cic., Or., 2, 36, 153): ☞ excipere sermonem alicujus does not mean “to listen,” but “to catch up anyone’s words.” See whether anyone is listening, circumspice, num quis est, qui sermonem nostrum aucupet, or ne quis nostro hinc sermoni auceps sit (comedy). To give attention, Vid: ATTEND.