The Latin AT, and the Greek AE. 125 



whether it be a refufal to depart, or any thing elfe of a like na> 

 ture. " AD imperium dictatoris difcedere nolebant." " EVEN 

 " AT the command of the dictator, they refufed to depart." 



Now, in this lad example, and in every other of the fame 

 kind, by varying the dructure of the fentence, AT may be in- 

 troduced indead of AD, without even the flighted variation in 

 the meaning. " Dictator imperabat ; AT difcedere nolebant." 

 Wherein, then, does this lad mode of expremng the idea dif- 

 fer from the former ? In the former, the dictator's giving the 

 command is not afferted ; it is prefuppofed, and appears only in 

 the abjlraft form of imperium ditlatot is, governed by AD ; where- 

 as, in the latter, it is formally ajjerted ; " DicJator imperabat " 

 but the abflracJ amount of the afTertion, viz-. " imperium diRatoris" 

 is not repeated as the object governed by AT. In the one, the 

 formal offer tion is omitted ', and the abftraEl amount of the affertion 

 is expreffed '; in the other, the abjlracl amount is omitted, and the 

 formal ojfertion is expreffed. In thefe circumstances, and in thefe 

 only, the two modes of expreffion feem to differ. 



FROM the preceding obfervations and examples, it appears, 

 that AT is nothing elfe but the prepofition AD, taken in the fpe- 

 cial meanings added to joined to, and not having the object 

 which it governs formally expreffed ; and that however oppolite 

 the objects may appear to be which it unites, yet it does not 

 exprefs their oppofition. 



THE word AT, as it denotes addition, might, indeed, be on- 

 fidered as implying difference ; for if an object is dated as ad- 

 ditional to another, it mud be at lead numerically different from 

 that other. And, indeed, AT agrees with the Greek AA, the 

 Latin caterum, and the~French mais, in this refpect, that all of 

 them imply difference, but none of them oppoftlion. The lad of 

 them particularly, mais, (inagis], like the Latin AT, implies 

 difference, only becaufe it denotes addition. 



WE have now feen, that the Englifh TOO and the Latin AT, 

 are really the fame with TO and AD ; that they are, in truth, 



nothing 



