bestiam

Updated: June 2, 2025

In fact, it was logic complate, convincing logic, every word of it. So I responded to him in what is called in the books, the argumentum ad crumenam; although I question but it ought to be designated here the argumentum ad bestiam.

William Carleton - Going to Maynooth : Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three