The corpus record — Latin

captiosus

captiosus · adj

Fallacious

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Where it lives

Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 2 · 4.2/10k
Lucullus 4 · 2.22/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Pro A. Caecina 1 · 0.96/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 3 · 0.6/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

captĭōsus — 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.

In the wild

captiosae Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 5.45.5.p1
captiosum Cicero, De Fato 30
captiosum Cicero, Lucullus 49
captiosa Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1.22
captiose Cicero, Lucullus 94
captioso Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.9

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