130 On the Engli/h Conjunction TOO, 



pofes. Thus, when ORESTES, in EURIPIDES, makes the follow- 

 ing obfervation 



AE oux t%xfw ot 

 *Oi in ii 



it is faid, that ft ftates an oppofition between the name and the 

 reality of friendship : But, when the obfervations formerly made 

 on AT, and the fignification of S\, afcertained by the preceding 

 examples, are taken into confideration, it feems much more 

 reafonable to fuppofe, that, even here, it retains its proper fig- 

 nification of union. Literally thus " For the friends that are 

 ' not friends in adverfity have the name of friends, not the reality 

 ( TOO." " Nomen, AT non rem habent." Two propofitions 

 in facl are ftated, viz. " That the friends that are not fuch in 

 * adverfity have the name of friends ;" and fecondly, " That 

 *' they have not the reality :" And, by the means of Si, inti- 

 mation is given, that (whatever might have been expecled) the 

 latter is united to the former. This feems to be the precife 

 meaning of the paflage ; and it is elicited without depart- 

 ing from the known fignification of <&. Let us take an exam- 

 ple ftill more ftriking. Suppofe that it is faid of a perfon 

 " wli JUEV not, i<r1i AE repot" " He is young, but he is wife." 

 The fame perfon is reprefented as pofTefling at once the two 

 feemingly incongruous qualities of youth and wifdom. Can any 

 perfon allege, that, in this example, it is reafonable to depart 

 from the known fignification of $, and to eonfider it as denoting 

 oppojition ? The oppofition between youth and wifdom is fufiucient- 

 ly apparent, without any expreffed fymbol of it. Is it not 

 more reafonable to fuppofe Si to give notice, that (whatever 

 might have been expecled however oppofite or incongruous thefe 

 qualities may fecm to be) they are (in this particular inftancc) 

 united'. That bis being wife is reprefented as joined EVEN TO his 

 being young ? This, at leaft, is the intimation that every perfon 



feels 



* Oreft. 455. 



