Elenchus, lenchi, m. g. Pli. A long pearle hanged at ones eare. Elenchus. Ci. A table in a booke to shew places by letters. Also an argument subtilly reproouing.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ĕlenchus, i, m., = e)/legxos. I.A costly trinket, ear-pendant, Plin. 9, 35, 56, 113; Juv. 6, 459; Dig. 34, 2, 32, 8; cf. Boettig. Sabina II. p. 56.—II.Plur., part of the title of a work of M. Pompilius Andronicus: adeo inops ut coactus est praecipuum illud opusculum suum, annalium Ennii elenchorum XVI. milibus nummum vendere, etc., prob. a review, refutation, Suet. Gram. 8.