In loquacem.

Distichon.¹

Nil, inquis, dico. At non cessas fundere verba,       Ut vel sic taceas² obsecro dic aliquid.

In the title: The gender of the “in loquacem” is uncertain, but the editor Macedo believed it to be a man. The next poem in the original text is titled “In eundem,” which can only refer to a man. ¹ This poem, like the poems "In quendam" and “In vetulam loquacem,” can be interpreted as a conversation between the poem’s speaker and an interlocutor. We have chosen not to include quotation marks here in order to preserve the poem’s original punctuation. ² Purpose clause; the English syntax would be: dic aliquid ut sic taceas.