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5 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Aristophanes, Frogs (ed. Matthew Dillon) line 907
   Dionysus And l enjoyed their silence; that pleased me
   no less than the babblers now.
   (10.51)

2. Plutarch, Lives (ed. Bernadotte Perrin) Alc., chapter 34, section 6
   He was to rise superior to envy, abolish decrees and laws, and stop the mouths of the babblers who were so fatal to the life of the city, that he might bear an absolute sway and act without fear of the public informer. (10.24)

3. P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various) Ars, book 2, line 665
   But Venus most in secresy delights:
   Away, ye babblers, from her silent rites!
   (9.47)

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1 from American Memory: California

1. Literary industries: a memoir. By Hubert Howe Bancroft page 408
   On one occasion the governor remarked to the general, "It seems you insist that Mr Bancroft is to be our Messiah, who will stop the mouth of babblers that insult us. (3.92)

2 from American Memory: Upper Midwest

1. Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the actual source of this river; embracing an exploratory trip through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) Rivers, in 1832 page 201
   And in these cases the plural is added to the last educed form, making kâgidooshkidjig, babblers, &c. (6.94)

2. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Volume 17 page 40
   Be silent, old babblers,” they said to them: “Are not the French sufficiently in trouble and is it proper for you to add affliction to affliction? (4.58)

1 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Peter Force, Tracts and other papers relating principally to the origin, settlement, and progress of the colonies in North America from the discovery of the country to the year 1776. Collected by Peter Force. Vol. 3 page 20
   Now having briefly set down the present state of Virginia not in fiction, but in realitie, I wish the juditious reader to consider what dislike can be had of the Country, or upon what grounds it is so infamously injured, I only therein covet to stop those blackmouthed babblers, that not only have and do abuse so noble a plantation, but abuse Gods great blessing in adding to England so flourishing a branch, in perswading many souls, rather to follow desparate and miserable courses in England, then to ingage in so honourable an undertaking as to travile and inhabite there; but to those I shall (if admonition will not worke on their recreant spirits) only say. (7.69)