I.to chatter, prate, chat, talk (cf. blatero).
I. 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.—
II. 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.).
