captiosus
Ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
captĭōsus: a, um, adj. captio.
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.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
captĭōsus,¹⁴ a, um (captio), trompeur : o societatem captiosam et indignam ! Cic. Com. 29, ô la fourberie, l’indignité de cette association ! || captieux, sophistique : nihil captiosius Cic. Com. 52, rien de plus captieux ; captiosissimo genere interrogationis uti Cic. Ac. 2, 49, employer la forme la plus captieuse d’argumentation [le sorite] ; pl. n., les sophismes : Cic. Fin. 1, 22.
