The Latin AT, and the Greek AE. 131 



feels himfelf prompted \JQ give, when he obferves the union of fuch 

 incongruous qualities. 



IT fliould feem, then, that the conjunction SI, even when it is 

 faid to mark oppofition, and tranflated but, ftill retains its ge- 

 nuine fignification of union y with this variation, however, that 

 from the perceived incongruity of the objedls, and the unex- 

 peclednefs of their union, we ought to give it, in fuch inftances, 

 the force, not of TO {imply, but of TO with emphafis, or 

 EVEN TO. 



BUT St, when it appears in the form of SL prepo/ition governing 

 the accufative, is not accented, aXv/*7mAE K*I<TWAE, &c. ; where- 

 as $\ the conjunction is always accented. If they are one and the 

 fame, whence arifes this difference ? This circumftance, among 

 others, has led the very learned and ingenious author quoted 

 above, to imagine them to be altogether different, and of dif- 

 ferent origin. His words are : " Casterum quoties AE iyxxt>i1<x^ 

 ' non conjunctio eft, fed fyllabica adjedio, nee quicquam cum 

 ' particula Si commune habet *. But, notwithftanding this feem- 

 ing difference between them, and notwithftanding the great au- 

 thority now quoted, we cannot hefitate to regard them ftill as the 

 fame word. For, if rightly confidered, this difference as to ac- 

 cent, in the pronunciation at leaft f, inftead of being an objec- 

 tion, is really a confirmation of our hypothefis J. We have 

 feen already, that the prepofitions, when the object which they 

 govern is expreffed, are commonly not accented, " He came to 

 ' Rome." In like manner ft, when its accufative is expreffed, 

 ought, upon this analogy, not to be accented, " nXu^woAE :" 

 That, on the other hand, when the objedl governed by them 

 is not exprefled, or not formally ftated, the prepofitions are then 

 accented, " Wifdom he has, and courage too" AS, therefore, when 



r 2 the 



* Doftr. Particul. L. Gh p. 262. 



f WITH regard to the accentual marks, they feem to have owed their origin to an un- 

 fuccefsful attempt to perpetuate a particular mode of pronunciation. 



J As far at leaft as a thing fo little known as the nature of Greek accent can be allow- 

 ed to have weight in the prefent cafe. 



