I. Fallacious, deceptive: “societas,” Cic. Rosc. Com. 10, 29: “beneficium,” Dig. 46, 5, 8 pr.: “liberalitas,” ib. 2, 15, 8.—Comp., Cic. Rosc. Com. 17, 52.—
II. (Acc. to captio, I. B.) Captious, sophistical (most freq. in Cic.): “animi fallacibus et captiosis interrogationibus circumscripti atque decepti,” Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 46; so Gell. 16, 2, 13: “probabilitas,” Cic. Fin. 3, 21, 72: “genus,” id. Ac. 2, 16, 49; so in sup., id. ib.—Subst.: captĭōsa , ōrum, n., sophisms, Cic. Fin. 1, 7, 22.—Adv.: cap-tĭōsē , captiously, insidiously: “interrogare,” Cic. Ac. 2, 29, 94.