Lalage
Lălăgē, ēs, f., = Λαλαγή,
- the name of a girl, Hor. C. 1, 22, 10; 23; 2, 5, 16; of a woman: LIVIA LALAGE, Inscr. ap. Mur. 1367, 1.
Lălăgē, (14) ēs, f. , nom de femme : Hor. O. 1, 22, 10.
La'lage
Under the name of Lalage two distinct persons are intended by Horace. In one ode (1.22, 10) a wolf appears to the poet as he is singing of his Lalage; but in another ode (2.5, 16) an unnamed friend is advised to defer making love to Lalage until she is older. It is evidently not a personal name, but the Greek λαλαγὴ, prattling, chattering (Oppian, Hal. 1.135), used as a term of endearment, "little prattler," which accords with the tender age of the Horatian damsel. [W.B.D]
Lalăgé
A common name of courtesans, from the Greek λαλαγή, “prattling,” used as a term of endearment—“little prattler.” See Hor. Carm. i. 22, 23.