vaniloquentia

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

vānĭlŏquentĭa, ae, f. [vaniloquus],

empty or idle talk , prating , vaunting (rarely; not in Cic.), Plaut. Rud. 4, 1, 14: hac vaniloquentiā primum Aristaenum praetorem Achaeorum excitavit, Liv. 34, 24, 1; Tac. A. 3, 49; 6, 31.— Plur. , Jul. Val. Rer. Gest. Alex. 2, 10.

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