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range of prepositions is largest in the case of those verbs which 

 express motion most nearly in its purity, actual or potential, 

 physical or in the form of existence, speech, thought, or percep- 

 tion; and as those notions give place to definition of color, kind 

 or direction, the range of prepositions grows less. That is to say: 



In general, /he range of eomhinable prepositions of a verb is in direct 

 ratio to the nearness with which the verb expresses pure motion. 



Until other authors are examined in the same way, however, we 

 cannot safely go further than to say that the indications for Thu- 

 cydides point in this direction, and even here there are a few 

 possible objections. These are not many and not difficult to 

 answer. 



1. It may be urged that /SaAAw, although not expressing pure 

 motion as we have defined it, inasmuch as the character of the 

 motion is designated, nevertheless has a larger range of preposi- 

 tions than any other verb including any of those instanced as verbs 

 of relatively pure motion. That is to say, (SdXXtxi heads the list with 

 _i range of i6 prepositions, no other sing/e verb in Thucydides 

 having more than 14. 'Ytto is the only preposition out of the 17 

 proper prose prepositions with which it does not combine. But 

 both a/x^tand lUTroare in its Homeric range. On the other hand, cT/ai 

 has a range of only 12, tpxafiat [ikOdv) 13, and /3tttVw 13. In reply, 

 there are three considerations that must not be overlooked: 

 (i) Not one of the verbs ei/xt, epxofiai (iXOtiv) and ^atVw has in its 

 simple form a complete tense-system, and hence they supply each 

 other's deficiencies. Take the three verbs as one, however, and 

 the range of prepositions increases to 15. (2) The absence of dvri 

 from the range of cT/ai, e/3X0)U,ai (iXdelv) and f^atvoi is significant. It 

 is due to the intense feeling of oli'tL This consciousness of avrl 

 shows itself in other ways to be noticed later on. Its sensitiveness 

 is so marked as to attract a verb of more feeling or color than mere 

 motion, and hence it is found with verbs like dywvi^o/xat, elirov, ia-T7]fx.i, 

 rdaaoi, &c. This community of feeling between verb and preposition 

 we shall have occasion to notice again in still other manifestations. 

 That the feeling of avrl in composition is stronger than that of any 

 other preposition, appears in diprothetics and triprothetics. Its 

 range of diprothetics relative to its whole combinable range is 

 greater than that of any other preposition and it is first element in 

 5 out of 9 triprothetics. (^3) /SdXXw is a military term. Thucydides' 

 is a military history. Every possible turn to perhaps the most 

 comprehensive military term in the whole range of the language, 

 would most naturally be necessary, owing to the military character 

 of the department. This would account for the large prepositional 



