ARGUTIE ab alieno, 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 Cetus nihil didicisset, errasset minus; again, Aureum hoc faculum est, quia plurimus jam auro honor venit.
Argutie ab allusione, those wherein allusion is made to some history, fable, sentence, proverb, or the like; e. g. Multi umbram captant et carnem amittunt.
Argutie à 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 disimile; e. g. Par est pauper nil cupiens principi omnia habenti.
Argutie à 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. g. Dum tacent clamant.