358 An Examination of Dr PARR'S Observations 



The wretched are raised from a low to a higher (better) condition : 

 z. e. a condition higher in the scale of existence. Nobody, I suppose, 

 ever heard of superlevare. The following quotations will shew the 

 relation which this verb points out. CICERO, Att. 1. x. c. 17. " Qui 

 nos sibi quondam ad pedes stratos, ne sublevabat quidem." PLI- 

 NY, 1. xi. c. 17. " Apes regem fessum humeris sublevant." LIVY, 

 1. XLV. c. 7. " Consul, introeunti regi dextram porrexit, submit- 

 tentemque se ad pedes sustulit." 



" Upon sub, when standing alone," he says, " I speak doubtfully. 

 " There is a passage in LIVY where subire may have the sense of 

 " ascending, but I am not positive, and shall offer a different ex- 

 " planation." In the following passage, from the same author, 

 where a description is given of HANNIBAL'S passage over the Alps, 

 the verb subire can have no other signification than to ascend. 

 " Luce prima subiit tumulos, ut ex aperto et interdiu vim per 

 angustias facturus," 1. xxi. c. 32. So also, 1. xxvu. c. 18. " Ce- 

 terum, quamquam ascensus difficilis erat, et prope obruebantur 

 telis saxisque, assuetudine tamen succedendi muros, et pertinacia 

 animi, subierunt primi." 



" Sub," says Dr PARR, " occurs under another form sus, which 

 hereafter will be explained. Sustineo, " I hold up. Suspicio, " I 

 look up." Mr STEWART will have the goodness particularly to 

 mark the form sus." After some other observations, which it is 

 not necessary to quote here, he proceeds : " Sub, then, signify- 

 ing " elevation," comes not from VKO, but from wrsg, and sus does 

 not immediately come from sub only, but by another process, as 

 we shall soon see." What immediately follows I shall omit, as 

 of little importance to the argument. He then goes on to say : 

 " Against SCALIGER'S third position I contend, that susum did 

 not come from sus, but versa vice, (as we ought to say instead of 

 vice versa), sus comes from susum, as retrovorsum was contracted 

 into rursum, so supervorsum was contracted into sursum, and 

 sursum was softened into susum, and susum when compounded, 



