(adjective) : garrŭlus, a, um, garrio
* Chattering, prattling, babbling, prating, talkative, garrulous.
* 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.
* Transf.
* 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.
* Of the subjects of talk: gaudent ubi Garrula securi narrare pericula nautae,Juv. 12, 82.

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