ARGUTIAE ab aliis, when something is said, which
seems repugnant either to the nature and property of a thing, or to common custom, the laws, &c. which yet in reality is consistent therewith; or when something is given as a reason of another, which yet is not the reason of it. For instance, Si Caelus nihil didicisset, erisset minus: again, Aureum hoc saeculum est, quia plurimus jam auro bonos venit.
Argutiae ab allusione, those wherein allusion is made to some history, fable, sentence, proverb, or the like; e. gr. Multi umbram captant & carnem amittunt.
Argutiae a comparatis, when two things are compared together, which yet at first sight appear very different from each other, but so as to make a pretty kind of simile or dissimile; e. gr. Par est pauper nil cupiens principi omnia habenti.
Argutiae a repugnantibus, when two things meet in a subject, which yet regularly cannot be therein; or when two things are opposed to each other, yet the epithet of the one is attributed to the other; e. gr. Dum tacet clamant.