J20 On the Englt/h Conjunction TOO, 



THE word AT is indeed called an adverfative, and is common- 

 ly imagined to mark, not the union, but the oppofition of objects. 

 But, 



i. THE authority of QUINCTILIAN is explicit in favour of 

 our hypothefis. In treating of the Latin orthography, he has 

 the following obfervation : " Ilia quoque fervata eft a multis 

 " differentia, ut AD, quum effet prcepofitioy D literamj quum 



" autem 



occur, it is evidently expreflive, not of oppojttion, but of union. When there is no incon- 

 gruity in the objeds united, and confequently nothing unexpected in their union, the ef- 

 fect of it will be perceived by rendering it TO fimply ; and, when the objects united ap- 

 pear incongruous, by rendering it TO with emphafis, or EVEN TO. 



I. To fimply as in the form of furrender recorded by LIVT, [Lib. I. cap. 38.] 

 41 Deditifne vos populutnque Collatinum in meam populique Romani ditionem ? De- 

 " dimus. AT ego recipio ;" " Joined TO that, I receive them." ET might have been 

 ufed in this inftance. In imprecations, and the like, it reprefents the amount of the 

 prayer, as joined to an aclion mentioned, perceived, dreaded, <&'r. i. To an aflion men- 

 tioned; as in TERENCE ; " CH. Faftum eft hoc, DAVE ? DA. Fadtum. CH. Hem ! quid 

 " ais,Scelus ? AT tibi dii dignum fadis exitium duint !" 2. To an action perceived ; as in 

 VIRGIL, when PRIAM, upon feeing his fon killed by PYRRHUS, exclaims : 



" AT tibi pro fcelere, exclamat, pro talibus aufis, 



" Di, fi qua eft ccelo pietas, quae talia curet, 



" Perfolvant grates dignas, et prsemia reddant 



" Digna, qui nati coram me cernere letum 



" Fecifti, et patrios fcedafti funere vultus." [jE/i. ii. 535.] 



II. EVEN TO as in TERENCE ; " Si ego digna hac contumeM fum maxime, AT tu 

 " indignus qui faceres tamen ;" " Joined EVEN TO that, it was unworthy of you to do 

 41 it." So when CHR.EMES, after he has heard many circumftances tending to prove that 

 PAMPHILA is his daughter, fays, " AT mihi unus fcrupulus etiam re.ftat." " Joined EVEN 

 " TO [what I have heard] there ftill remains one difficulty." i. e. " All I have heard is 

 "" not fufficient to remove it." It is afed precifely in this manner, when it introduces 

 an objeElion, or the anfwer to an objeEiion. I. An objeElion ; as in CICERO pro MILONE j 

 " AT valuit odium, fecit iratus, <&c." " Joined EVEN TO [what you have faid] his hatred 

 " got the better of him, he a&ed from paffion :" i. e. " For all that you have faid," &T. 

 " All that you have faid does not hinder the deed to have proceeded from hatred or paf- 

 " fion." 2. The anfwer to an objeElion ; as, " Domus tibi deerat ? AT habebas. Pecu- 

 *' nia fuperabat ? AT egebas." " You will fay you wanted a houfe ; joined EVEN TO 

 " that, you had one," ire. It is ufed in this manner too, when it introduces the circum- 



Jlances of an action which tend to heighten our furprife. " Vidit CLODIUS necefle efle 

 " MILONI proficifci Lanuvium illo ipfo, quo profeftus eft, die ; itaque antevertit. AT 



" quo 



