ōra ae, f 1 AS-, an extremity, border, brim, edge, rim, margin, end, boundary, limit: omnes spectant ad carceris oras, at the barriers, Enn. ap. C.: (clipei), V.: summa (vestis), O.: regiones, quarum nulla esset ora: subiecti Orientis orae Serae, the extreme East, H.

—The coast, sea-coast: Asiae, N.: maritima, Cs.: ora maritima Pompeium requisivit, the people of the coast.

—A region, clime, country: terrarum latior: gelida, H.: Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam venit, V.: quae se tollunt in luminis oras, the world of life, V.: o Calliope . . . mecum oras evolvite belli, the scenes of the war, V.

—A zone: globus terrae duabus oris distantibus habitabilis.