liS On the Englijh Conjunction 'TOO, 



" PA. Faciam. PH. AT diligenter. PA. Fiet. PH. AT ma- 

 " ture*." By the means of AT, the circumftances of dili- 

 gence and hajle are fupsradded to the action commanded. " PH. It 

 " is not enough that you do it, you muft do it carefully TOO. 

 " PA. Well; it mail be carefully done. PH. In good time TOO." 



BUT further : Another of \\\t fpecial applications of the prepo- 

 lition AD, is to mark one object as united or joined to f another, 

 and that, too, whatever be the nature of the objects, whether 

 they be fuch as are commonly united, or fuch as appear incongru- 

 ous^ and whofe union is contrary to expectation. Of the firft 

 kind is this example from LIVY : " AD imperium. dictatoris, 

 " cuncta mota acies ;" " Joined TO the command of the dictator, 

 " the whole army was in motion" /'. e. " AT, the command," 

 &fr. In this example, there is nothing incongruous in the ob- 

 jects united ; their union is even confidered as neceflary, the 

 movement of the army being joined to the command of the dictator ; 

 as an ejfetl to its canfe. Of the fecond kind is the following in- 

 ftance : " AD imperium dictatoris, difcedere nolebant ;" " AT 

 " the command of the dictator, they refufed to depart." In this 

 laft example, the fentence is conftructed in the fame manner as 

 in the other. Two events are reprefented as conjoined, a refufal 

 to depart and the command of the dictator ; and the fame prepofi- 

 tion AD is employed to mark their union. From our knowledge, 

 however, of the power vefted in the Roman dictator, we per- 

 ceive, that thefe events are, in fome meafure, incongruous, and 

 their union confeqxiently unexpected. And this perception of 

 incongruity in the objects united leads us to give to AD the 

 force, not of TO fimply, but of TO with emphafis, or EVEN TO. 

 " Joined EVEN TO the command of the dictator, they refufed 

 " to depart" /. e. " EVEN AT the command" &c. 



Now it is in this laft manner, viz. to mark the unexpected union 

 of incongruous objecJs, that AD, when the object which it governs 



is 



* Eun. Ad. ii. Sc. i. 



f Joined to, in refpeft of time, as caufe and e/etf, &c. 



