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Or Garrulity, Chattering, Prating. It is Talkativeness in a bad sense.
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Some unknown poet's words. I suppose they mean driving one mad, making one "Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh."
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Homer, "Odyssey," xiv. 463-465.
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Ibid. 466.
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Homer, "Odyssey," xix. 494. Plutarch quotes from memory. The nurse's name was Euryclea.