in Logic, a species of reasoning in which a great number of propositions are so linked together, that the predicate of the one becomes continually the subject of the next following, till at last a conclusion is formed by bringing together the subject of the first pro- position and the predicate of the last. Such was that merry argument of Themistocles, to prove that his little son under ten years old governed the whole world. Thus: My son governs his mother; his mother me; I the Athenians; the Athenians the Greeks; Greece com- mands Europe; Europe the whole world; therefore my son commands the whole world. See LOGIC, No 96, 97.