Studying Demosthene's speech On the Crown, and he kept using a word I did not know. Looking it up I found the definition to be AWESOME
Pettifogging
adjective : quibbling over insignificant details
Pettifogger
1. A petty, quibbling, unscrupulous lawyer.
2. One who quibbles over trivia.
Now go out and use it! <p>
"Moreover, when on the following night, much to his dismay, [Caesar] had a dream of raping his own mother, the soothsayers greatly encouraged him by their interpretations of it: namely, that he was destined to conquer the earth" - Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars - Julius Caesar, chapter 7</p>