The Latin AT, and the Greek A E. 117 



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the circumflances of apparent diverfity have been accounted for. 

 This, then, I think, may be fairly admitted as one inftance 

 wherein the various clafling of the fame word, founded on im- 

 perfect and partial views, tends to deceive, by leading us to 

 fuppofe gramma tic differences which are not real, and to confider 

 words as different, when they are really the fame. 



II. I SHALL fubjoin a fimilar example from the Latin lan- 

 guage. The Latin prepofition AD, like the Englifh TO, is ex- 

 tremely general^ and confequently capable of various fpecial ap- 

 plications. One of thefe is to mark one object as added to ano- 

 ther *. " AD hoc, promiffa barba et capilli efferaverant fpeci- 

 " em oris f-" " Additional to this, his long beard and hair 

 ' had given a wildnefs to his afpect." 



BUT the object governed by AD, when ufed in this fpecial 

 meaning, is often not expreffed, or not formally ftated ; and, 

 in that cafe, like the Englifh prepofition TO, AD is claffed with 

 the conjunctions, and written differently, AT. Thus, as ABS, 

 compounded with que, produces AB&que, fo AD compounded 

 with que produces ATque, i. e. \vque. " BRUTUS ATque CJES AR," 

 " BRUTUS and C^SAR TOO ;" " BRUTUS, and CESAR addi- 

 " tional to BRUTUS." " C^SAR DUMNORIGEM cepit, ATque in- 

 " terfecit." " CESAR made DUMNORIX prifoner, and killed him 

 " TOO." In this example, \ih& killing DUMNORIX is ftated as added 

 to the making him a prifoner. In thefe examples, it is evident, 

 that AT marks one object as added to another, and differs from. 

 AD, when ufed in the fame fpecial meaning, in nothing but the 

 fupprejjing of the object governed by it. 



EVEN when AT appears by itfelf, and without que fubjoined, 

 it feems to be fometimes ufed in the fame fpecial meaning. 

 Thus TERENCE, " PH. Fac, ita ut juffi, deducantur ifti. 



" PA. 



* Added to where accumulation only, or the increafe of number or magnitude, is at- 

 tended to. 



f- Liv?. 



