auritus

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

aurītus: a, um, adj. auris.
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.: 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.—
   B Trop.
   1    Attentive, listening: 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.—
   2    Testis auritus, a witness by hearsay, who has only heard, not seen, something, Plaut. Truc. 2, 6, 8.—*
   3    Pass. (as if part. of aurio, īre), heard: leges, Prud. Apol. 835.—*
II Formed like the ear, ear-shaped: aurita aduncitas rostri, Plin. 10, 49, 70, § 136.— *
III (Acc. to auris, II. B.) Furnished with an ear or mould-board: aratra, Pall. 1, 43.