Captio

Latin-English

captĭ|ō, -ōnis. (ˈkap.tsi.o) fem.

1. A trick; deception; a catch; a fallacy.

[capio.]

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, De Finibus 2.6:

Finem, inquit, interrogandi, si videtur, quod quidem ego a principio ita me malle dixeram hoc ipsum providens, dialecticas captiones.

"As I said at the beginning," he said, "because I was actually expecting just this sort of thing—dialectical fallacies—I'd rather have an end to this questioning, if you please."