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balbē, adv., v. balbus fin.

Balbillus, i, m., a scholar, prefect in Egypt, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 13; Tac. A. 13, 22; Plin. 19, 1, prooem. § 3 Jan. (al. Balbilius, Babbillus).

1. balbus, a, um, adj. [kindr. with balo; cf. Sanscr. barh, barrire, and barbarus], stammering, stuttering (opp. planus, speaking fluently, without impediment): balba, loqui non quit? τραυλίζει, does she (the loved one) stammer, can she not speak distinctly? (then he says) she lisps, Lucr. 4, 1164: Demosthenes cum ita balbus esset, ut ejus ipsius artis, cui studeret (sc. rhetoricae), primam litteram (sc. r) non posset dicere, perfecit meditando, ut nemo planius esse locutus putaretur, Cic. de Or. 1, 61, 260; and thus in ridicule, id. Fam. 2, 10, 1: os pueri, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 126: senectus, id. ib. 1, 20, 18; Dig. 21, 1, 10, § 5: verba, Tib. 2, 5, 94; Hor. S. 2, 3, 274: balbā de nare loqui, to speak through the nose, Pers. 1, 33.
Adv.: balbē, stammeringly, etc., Lucr. 5, 1021.

    1. 2. Transf., obscurely, Varr. ap. Non. p. 80, 7.

2. Balbus, i, m., a Roman cognomen, Cic. Att. 8, 9, 4; id. Balb. passim; id. Cael. 11, 27; id. de Or. 3, 21, 78 al.

balbūtĭo (-uttio), īre, v. n. and a. [balbus].

  1. I. Neutr., to stammer, stutter: balbutire est cum quādam linguae haesitatione et confusione trepidare, Non. p. 80, 13; Cels. 5, 26, 31: lingua, Cod. 15, 6, 22.
    Transf., of birds, not to sing clearly: merula hieme balbutit, Plin. 10, 29, 42, § 80.
    1. B. Trop., to speak upon something obscurely, not distinctly or not correctly: desinant balbutire (Academici), aperteque et clarā voce audeant dicere, Cic. Tusc. 5, 26, 75; id. Div. 1, 3, 5.
  2. II. Act., to stutter, stammer, or lisp out something: illum Balbutit Scaurum pravis fultum male talis, he, lisping or fondling, calls him Scaurus, Hor. S. 1, 3, 48.
    Trop., as above: Stoicus perpauca balbutiens, Cic. Ac. 2, 45, 137.