piquancy

piquancy: perh. vis: cf. Cic. Att. 1, 16, 4, nam cetera non possunt habere neque vim, neque venustatem, neither piquancy nor liveliness; or sometimes, sal, săles: v. WIT. Or expr. by salsus: there is a p. about those (witticisms) which involve a latent suspicion of the ridiculous, salsa sunt quae, etc., Cic. de Or. 2, 69, init.