ranae+garriunt+m

garrĭo, īvi or ĭi, ītum, 4, v. a. [Sanscr. gir, speech; Gr. gêrus, voice; Germ. girren, to coo; Engl. call; v. Curt. Gr. Etym. p. 177], to chatter, prate, chat, talk (cf. blatero).

Lit. (class.):

cum coram sumus et garrimus quicquid in buccam,

Cic. Att. 12, 1, 2:

cupiebam etiam nunc plura garrire,

id. ib. 6, 2, 10:

nugas,

Plaut. Aul. 5, 21; id. Curc. 5, 2, 6:

quidlibet,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 13:

aniles fabellas,

id. ib. 2, 6, 77:

libellos,

id. ib. 1, 10, 41:

aliquid in aurem,

Mart. 5, 61, 3:

garriet quoi neque pes umquam neque caput conpareat,

will chatter nonsense, Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 81.— Absol.:

garris,

Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 86; id. Heaut. 3, 2, 25; 4, 6, 19; id. Phorm. 1, 4, 33:

garri modo,

id. ib. 3, 2, 11:

saeculis multis ante gymnasia inventa sunt, quam in his philosophi garrire coeperunt,

Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 21; cf.:

tanta est impunitas garriendi,

id. N. D. 1, 38, 108.—

Transf., of frogs:

meliusque ranae garriunt Ravennates,

Mart. 3, 93, 8. Of the nightingale:

lusciniae canticum adolescentiae garriunt,

App. Flor. p. 258 (3, 17 fin.).