I.chattering, prattling, babbling, prating, talkative, garrulous.
I. Lit. (class., but not in Cic.; cf.: “loquax, verbosus): confidentes garrulique et malevoli,” Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 16; Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 15: “percontatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est,” Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 69: “(Lucilius) Garrulus atque piger scribendi ferre laborem,” id. S. 1, 4, 12: “garrulus hunc quando consumet cumque: loquaces, Si sapiat, vitet,” id. ib. 1, 9, 33: “ut hujus infantiae garrulam disciplinam contemneremus,” Auct. Her. 2, 11, 16: “scientia,” id. 3, 3, 6: “lingua,” Ov. Am. 2, 2, 44: “bella verbosi fori,” id. Tr. 3, 12, 18: “vadimonia,” id. Am. 1, 12, 23: “hora,” time for chatting, Prop. 3 (4), 23, 18.—
II. Transf.
A. Of animals or inanimate things: “ales (i. e. cornix),” Ov. M. 2, 547: “perdix,” id. ib. 8, 237: “hirundo,” Verg. G. 4, 307: “cicada,” Phaedr. 3, 16, 10: “noctua in imbre,” Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 362: “cantus lusciniae,” id. 10, 29, 43, § 81: “rivus,” babbling, murmuring, Ov. F. 2, 316: “pinus vento,” rustling, Nemes. Ecl. 1, 30: “fistula,” vocal, Tib. 2, 5, 30; cf. “lyra,” id. 3, 4, 38: “plectra,” Mart. 14, 167: “sistra,” id. 14, 54: “anulus in orbe (trochi),” id. 14, 169.—
