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1 auritus
aurītus, a, um, adj. [auris].I.A.. Furnished with ears (acc. to auris, l.), having long or large ears: auritus a magnis auribus dicitur, ut sunt asinorum et leporum, alias ab audiendi facultate, Paul. ex Fest. p. 8 Müll.:B.lepores,
Verg. G. 1, 308; so,asellus,
Ov. Am. 2, 7, 15:si meus aurita gaudet glaucopide Flaccus,
Mart. 7, 87, 1.— Hence, subst.: aurītus, i, m., the longeared animal, i. e. the hare, Avien. Phaen. Arat. 788.—Trop.1.Attentive, listening:2.face jam nunc tu, praeco, omnem auritum poplum,
Plaut. As. prol. 4:ne quis Nostro consilio venator assit cum auritis plagis,
id. Mil. 3, 1, 14.—So of the trees and walls which listened to the music of Orpheus and Amphion's lyre:quercus,
Hor. C. 1, 12, 11:muri,
Sid. Carm. 16, 4.—Testis auritus, a witness by hearsay, who has only heard, not seen, something, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8.—* 3. * II. * III. -
2 thryallis
thryallis, ĭdis, f., = thruallis, the name of two different plants.I.A plant, called also lychnitis, Plin. 25, 10, 74, § 121. —II.An ear-shaped plant, Plin. 21, 17, 61, § 101. -
3 imbrex
imbrex, ĭcis, f. (less freq. m., Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 114; Arn. 3, 107) [imber], a hollow tile, gutter-tile, pantile (used in roofs for the purpose of leading off the rain; cf.: tegula, operculum, tectorium).I.Lit.: tegulae vocatae, quod tegant aedes;II.et imbrices quod accipiant imbres,
Isid. Orig. 19, 10:meas confregisti imbrices et tegulas,
Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 24; id. Most. 1, 2, 28; Sisenn. ap. Non. 125, 18; Plin. 36, 22, 44, § 159; Verg. G. 4, 296.—Transf., of things shaped like a pantile.A.A gutter, a trough for watering beasts, Col. 9, 13, 6; 2, 2, 9; Plin. 17, 14, 24, § 114; Cato, R. R. 21, 3.—B.A certain part of a hog (either the ear, sparerib, or womb), Mart. 2, 37, 2.—C.Imbrex narium, the partition (saeptum) in the nose, Arn. 3, 107.—D.A mode of applauding with the hands formed into hollows, invented by Nero, Suet. Ner. 20.
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