(ἀπορία), a figure in Rhetoric, by which the speaker shows that he doubts where to begin for the multi- APOSIOPEIS, in Rhetoric, afterwards called reticency and suppression, a figure by which a person really speaks of a thing, at the same time that he makes a show as if he would say nothing of it. The word comes from ἀπορρεύομαι, I am silent. Example: "I declare to you that his conduct—but we must not now lose time in words."