listen Copy link Outline I. To attend in order to hear1. ausculto, 12. audio, 43. aucŭpo, 1 (slily)II. To yield to1. ausculto, 1 (with dat.2. audio, 4 • listen: I. To attend in order to hear: 1. ausculto, 1: to l. at the door, ad fores a., Pl. Truc. 1, 2, 1: l. to me, mihi ausculta! Cic. R. Am. 36, 104. Also subausculto, to l. secretly, unobserved, id de Or. 2, 36, fin.: Pl. 2. audio, 4: v. to hear. 3. aucŭpo, 1 (slily): Pl. Most. 2, 2, 42 (sermonem a.). Phr. l. to the plot, accipe rationem doli [quam institui]! Pl.: l. kindly (to the play), adeste aequo animo, Ter. Andr. prol. 20: to l. most eagerly to any one's praises, avidissimis auribus laudes alicujus excipere, Plin. Ep. 4, 19, 3. II. To yield to: 1. ausculto, 1 (with dat.: colloq.): Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 12: Pl. 2. audio, 4: nor do I l. to Homer, when he says ..., nec Homerum audio, qui ait ..., Cic. Tusc. 1, 26, 65: I wish I had l.'d to your most friendly advice, vellem te audisse amicissime monentem, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 2. See also to hear (III.).