In regard to
interrogation, its employment is especially opportune,
when the opponent has already stated the opposite,
so that the addition of a question makes the result an absurdity1; as, for instance, when Pericles interrogated
Lampon about initiation into the sacred rites of the savior goddess. On Lampon
replying that it was not possible for one who was not initiated to be told about
them, Pericles asked him if he himself was acquainted with the rites, and when
he said yes, Pericles further asked, “How can that be, seeing that you
are uninitiated?”
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Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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