Latin Text Selections

ausculto, auscultare, auscultaui, auscultatum

to listen to, to obey, to overhear, to wait at the door.

The Latin:

Et ait Sámuel : Numquid uult Dóminus holocáusta et uíctimas, et non pótius ut obediátur úoci Dómini ? mélior est enim obediéntia quam uíctimæ, et auscultáre magis quam offérre ádipem aríetum.

The English (D-R):

And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.