BIÆUM, βῆμα, in Rhetoric, denotes a kind of counter argument, whereby something alleged for the adversary is retorted against him, and made to conclude a different way: for instance, Oecidisti, quia adfististi interfecto.—βῆμα, Ἰννοῦντα quia adfististi interfecto, non oecidisti; nam si id esset, in fugam me conjecissem. "You killed the person because you were found standing by his body. Βῆμα, Rather I did not kill him because I was found standing by his body; since, in the other case, I should have fled away."