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long ears

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long ears
symbol of licentiousness. [Indian Myth.: Leach, 333]
See : Lust


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Now then," said his Majesty, waving his long ears gently to and fro, "tell me why you are here, and what you expect me to do for you.
I unlearned long ago to have consideration for long ears.
Virgil, I think, tells us, that when the mob are assembled in a riotous and tumultuous manner, and all sorts of missile weapons fly about, if a man of gravity and authority appears amongst them, the tumult is presently appeased, and the mob, which when collected into one body, may be well compared to an ass, erect their long ears at the grave man's discourse.
 
 
 
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