The extreeme part of euery thing. vt, Et mecum ingentis oras euoluite belli. Virg. Oræ. Festus. The edges: the brimmes: the borders: the skirtes: the hemmes. Oræ poculorum. Lucret. The brimmes of the cuppes. Oræ alueariorum. Virgilius. The brimmes or borders of the hiues. Oræ. Virg. A coast: or marches or frontiers. Ora maritima. Cic. The sea coast: the sea side. Orarum & littorum amœnitates. Cic. Terrarum oras destinet mare. Lucret. Sine ora & extremitate regio. Cic. A Countrie without border or marches. Ora. Plinius. The sea coast: the part of the countrie lying toward the sea. Illætabilis ora. Virg. Inuia. Ouid. Laxatæ oræ. Sil. Latens. Horat. Vmbrosæ. Horat. Accedere oras aliquas vento. Virgilius. By occasion of the winde to come to a coast. Antiquis Curetum allabitur oris. Virg. Vestris adnauimus oris. Virgilius. We came by sea to your coastes. Immanibus oris applicare aliquem. Virg. Deus appulit re nostris oris. Virg. God made thee to arriue in our countrie. Capessere otas Italas. Virg. Legere oram, Vide LEGO, legis. Oram soluere. Quint. To departe from the hauen and take the sea. Ora. Cic. A region lande, or countrie. Orientis oræ. Horat. Australis ora. Cic. The south coast or countrie. Breuis ora. Lucret. A small countrie. Gelida ora. Horat. Habitabiles oræ. Horat. Externis oris adesle. Vir. To come from forrayne coÛtries. Allabi oris Euboicis. Virg. Longis disiungimur oris. Valer. Flac. We be in countries far asunder. Dominari cunctis oris. Virg. In vltimas oras extendere nomen. Horat. Venire ab oris aliquibus. Virg. Ora. Cic. A clime or part of the firmament deuided. Ætheriæ or æ. Lucret. Superis concessit ab oris. Virg. He dyed: he departed out of this worlde. Oræ vulneris. Cels. The edges of the wound.

To pray: to desire: to intreate. To speake openly and eloquently of a thing as an orator doth: to pleade: to make an oration.

I. In gen. (so obsol.): orare antiquos dixisse pro agere testimonio est, quod oratores dicti et causarum actores et qui rei publicae mandatas causas agebant, Fest. p. 198 Müll.: bonum aequumque oras, Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 151: talibus orabat Juno, Verg. A. 10, 96.—

II. In partic.

A. To treat, argue, plead (as an ambassador, advocate, etc.; class., but very rare; cf. ago): REM VBI PAGVNT ORATO, Fragm. XII. Tab.: matronis ipsis, quae raptae erant, orantibus, i. e. at their mediation, Cic. Rep. 2, 7, 13: causam capitis, to argue, plead, id. Brut. 12, 47: orandae litis tempus accommodare, id. Off. 3, 10, 43: si causa oranda esset, Liv. 39, 40, 6: causas melius, Verg. A. 6, 849: cum eo de salute suā agit, orat atque obsecrat, treats, speaks, Caes. B. C. 1, 22: causam dixit et ipse pro se oravit, plead his own cause, Liv. 39, 40, 12.—

2. Of oratorical speaking, eloquence (freq. in Quint.): ars orandi, the oratorical art, art of oratory, Quint. prooem. 4; id. 2, 15, 20; 9, 4, 3: orandi scientia, id. 1, 10, 2: orandi studium, id. 9, 4, 110; 8, 6, 20.—

B. To pray, beg, beseech, entreat one (the predom. signif. in all periods and styles; syn.: rogo, obsecro, obtestor, supplico, precor); constr. usually with acc. of the pers. and of the thing, and with ut, ne (the less freq. constructions, v. infra).

(a). With acc. of the pers. and of the thing: illud te ad extremum et oro et hortor, ut, etc., Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 16, 46: multa deos orans, Verg. A. 9, 24: aliquem libertatem, Suet. Vesp. 16.—

(b). With acc. of the pers. only: virginem orare, Liv. Andron. ap. Diom. p. 379 P: cum desubito me orat mulier, Enn. ap. Non. 517, 15 (Cax. v. 9 Vahl.); cf.: socer Non orandus erat, sed vi faciendus Erechtheus, not to be entreated, but compelled, Ov. M. 6, 701: Lydia, dic, per omnes Te deos oro, Sy barin cur properes amando perdere, Hor. C. 1, 8, 2.—

(g). With acc. of the thing for which one asks: gnato uxorem, to request a wife for one's son, Ter. And. 3, 2, 48: legati Romam missi, auxilium ad bellum orantes, to ask assistance, Liv. 21, 6: opem rebus affectis orantes, id. 6, 9: auxilia, Tac. A. 2, 46.—

(d). With ut: rogat oratque te Chrysogone, ut, etc., Cic. Rosc. Am. 49, 144: te, C. Flave, oro et obtestor, ut, etc., id. Planc. 42, 104: te etiam atque etiam oro, ut, etc., id. Att. 11, 1, 2: hoc me a vobis orare Juppiter jussit, ut, etc., Plaut. Am. prol. 64.—(e) With subj.: orant, ignoscamus peccatum suum, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 101: et vocet oro, Verg. A. 11, 442: idque sinas, oro, Ov. P. 4, 1, 19.—(z) With ne: rogat eos atque orat, ne, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 39, 96: quod te, Aesculapi, et te, Salus, ne quid sit hujus, oro, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 3.—(h) With the imper.: absiste inceptis, oro, Sil. 11, 336.— With imper. and acc. of person, Verg. A. 2, 143; 4, 319; 10, 61 and 905.—(q) With inf. or an object-clause: jampridem a me illos abducere Thestylis orat, Verg. E. 2, 43; id. A. 6, 313; 9, 231; Tac. A. 6, 2; 12, 9: vel Aegypti praefecturam concedi sibi oraret, Suet. Ner. 47.—(i) With ab and abl. of a person, followed by ut or ne: primum hoc abs te oro, ni me inexorabilem faxis, Pac. Tr. 122: oravitque a suis, ut, etc., Gell. 17, 10, 7: oratus ab Artorio, ne in castris remaneret, Vell. 2, 70, 1.—(k) With cum aliquo: quod tecum pater orat, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 198 Müll. (Ann. v. 20 Vahl.): si is mecum oraret, Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 15: tecum oro et quaeso, ut, id. Curc. 3, 1, 62: egi, atque oravi tecum, uxorem ut duceres, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 64; cf. Caes. B. C. 1, 22; cited above, II. A.—(l) With pro and the abl.: nec pro civibus se orare, sed pro, etc., Just. 11, 4, 4: ut Octavius orandus sit pro salute cujusquam civis, Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 16, 2; cf.: ut pro illā ores, ut sit propitius (deus), Plaut. As. 4, 1, 38.—

b. Oro te, I pray thee, prithee, parenthetically, a formula of politeness (cf. quaeso): dic. oro te, clarius, Cic. Att. 4, 8, 1; Sen. Vit. Beat. 7, 1; Liv. 5, 5, 1; cf. Cic. Att. 7, 16, 3.—

C. To pray, to supplicate God (eccl. Lat.); act.: oravit Dominum, Vulg. Judic. 13, 8: orationem quam orat, id. 3 Reg. 8, 29; id. 2 Par. 6, 21: filios, id. Job, 19, 17: Deum, id. Ecclus. 50, 24: orationes longas, id. Matt. 23, 14.—More often neutr.: pro te, Vulg. Gen. 20, 7: ut audias, id. ib. 43, 20: in loco isto, id. 3 Reg. 8, 30: contra viam civitatis, id. ib. 8, 44: ad Dominum, id. 4 Reg. 4, 33: cum lacrimis, id. Tob. 3, 1: unus orans et unus maledicens, id. Ecclus. 34, 29: spiritu et mente, id. 1 Cor. 14, 15: mulierem decalvatam orare non decet, Ambros. in Luc. 6, 19: orandi gratia, Lact. 4, 15, 20.—Hence, P. a. as subst.: ōrans, antis, m., an orator: orantes, Tac. Dial. 6, 6.