The Latin At, and the Greek AE. 129 



;> ' It fent many brave fouls to PLUTO before their time"" and, by 

 the means of $, the lafl event is reprefented as additional to the 

 former. " It fent, TOO, to PLUTO many brave fouls of he- 

 " roes." In this example, alfo, the object governed' by SI is 

 not exprefled. It is, however, obvioufly fuggefted by the con- 

 text ; being the amount of the preceding propofition taken ab- 

 Jlraftly, or as a noun fubftantive. It is unneceflary to multiply 

 examples. Every page of every Greek author abounds with 

 them ; for of this kind are all. thofe in which the fenfe. leads us- 

 to render & and. 



BUT i\ is often faid to denote oppofttion. In truth it never 

 does. In this refpect it agrees exactly with the Latin AT. The 

 events which it unites may appear oppofite ; but St does not in- 

 timate their being fo : It only marks the one as added, or united, 

 to the other. This I am warranted: in affirming, by the autho- 

 rity of the learned, ingenious, and mod laborious HOOGEVEEN, 

 an authority that will not be queftioned, at leaft as to the fatfs 

 of the Greek langxiage. His word& are : " A ponitur et pro 

 1 AAAA Sun-fog jjca xi EKa*1iwjua]ixu, five MEN prsecedit, five non. vel 

 ' pottus dicam fententise diverfse aut adverfanti additur, ita ut 

 1 vicem T AAAA explere videatur ; non enim ipfi particula Si ea 

 ** poteftas attribuenda eft, fedfententia cui apponitur *." 



FURTHER, That the fame word mould be employed to de- 

 note fometimes the union, and fometimes the oppofttion of objects, 

 is a fuppofition, in itfelf, extremely improbable ;, becaufe, in 

 that cafe, the nature of the objects themselves could alone de- 

 termine which of thefe fignifications we ought, in any particu- 

 lar inftance, to affix to it ; and, if fo, their opposition might 

 be difcovered without the help of this ambiguous fymbol of it~ 

 At, indeed, like the Latin AT, is often employed to mark the 

 union of incongruous objects ; and, like AT too, it has then 

 been imagined to exprefs that oppofition which it only prefup- 



r pofesr- 



* Doftr. Particul.-L. Gr. p. 245, 



