cross-examination Copy link Outline 1. interrŏgātio (see Quint. 5, 7; where the subject is treated)2. percontātio • cross-examination: 1. interrŏgātio (see Quint. 5, 7; where the subject is treated): to press a c. too hard, nimium instare interrogationi, ib. § 16: a clever c., scitae interrogationes (used of the Socratic erotetics), ib. § 28: a careful c., circumspecta int., ib. § 31: c. by the opposite side, int. a patronis diversae partis habita, cf. ib. § 10, 11. Simly with verb: by a c. which proceeds step by step, paullatim, pedetentim interrogando, ib. § 20. 2. percontātio: more fully, variae per. quales ab adversario [a patrono] haberi possint, ib. § 11. Phr.: to be caught by an artful c., in laqueos [interrogationum] induci, ib.: there is need of the utmost art in c., summis artibus interrogantis opus est, ib. § 15.