126 On the Engli/h Conjunction TOO, 



nothing more than fpecial applications of thefe ; and we have 

 mown on what thefe fpecialities depend, and that their effect in 

 a fentence is actually fuch as, by their original fignification, 

 they may be fuppofed to produce j or, what amounts to the 

 fame thing, that the effect of them may be fatisfactorily ex- 

 plained, by reforting to their proper and primitive fignification. 



III. LET us next enquire, whether the preceding obfervations 

 can throw any light on the nature and import of the Greek par- 

 ticle AE, for the fake of which, chiefly, they have been premifed. 



1. THIS particle is, not uncommonly, found after the accufa- 

 tive cafe of proper names of places, when motion TO thefe places 

 isexpreffed. " IA,<*AE," " To Troy," fcfr. 



2. NOT only is it thus affixed to proper names, but alfo to 

 common, or appellative, nouns, and in the fame fenfe ; " eixAE," 

 " To a houfe." " yo? ^AF.," " To the forum." " AAE," 

 " To the fea," fcfr. 



3. IT is not affixed to the accufative fingular only, but fre- 

 quently alfo to the accufative plural, " exAR." When, how- 

 ever, the accufative plural ends in j, it is often difguifed by a 

 tranfpofition, the letters S and <r being tranfpofed for the fake 

 of the found. Thus, " A9**?AE," " To Athens," is com- 

 monly written " ASu-aZE." So " X /*ZE," " To the ground j" 

 " eZE," " To Thebes," &c. 



4. IT is not only applied, in this manner, to the place to 

 which real motion tends, and at which it is conceived to termi- 

 nate, but alfo to that object, whatever it be, to which any ac- 

 tion is directed as njinal caufe. Thus HOMER*, " M ayo^tvt q>ti- 

 " A " literally, " Do not fpeak to flight." Let not your fpeech 

 tend to flight ; let not flight be the objeEl, or final caufe, to -which 

 it is directed. The Latins ufe ad, and the Englifti to, in the 

 fame manner. " Hoc fecit ad honorem meum," " He did 

 " this to my honour ;" where his doing this is, in like manner, 

 confidered as tending to my honour. 



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* Iliad. '. 252. 



