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it preferred in this case to show the direction by prepositions in the 

 simple form. The combination afjuKvioixaa made the loss of color of 

 avo merely a matter of time. Thus in acjuKviofxai the compound has 

 usurped the place of the simple, the preposition aTro having come 

 in to the exclusion (or nearly so) of other prepositions, though a 

 few cases exist of iKviofxai in composition with 8ta, Ik (one each in 

 Thuc), with 8ia, e/c and Kara (Hom.) and €7rt (Dem. ). 



The case of crreAAw is of the same kind with the additional cir- 

 cumstance that the ofificial character of o-reAAo) gives it a much 

 narrower range of prepositions (see Table I.). When o-reAAw 

 fails, Tre'/xTTOj supplies the deficiencies. 



Additional evidence for the truth of our main thesis is derived 

 from a consideration of the diprothetics and triprothetics. Here 

 as in monoprothetic composition, where there exists most mobility, 

 there exists also most modification. The more nearly the idea of 

 the simple verb approaches pure motion, the wider its range of 

 diprothetic combinations. Pursuing the same method as in 

 monoprothetics, we find that, with reference to range of diprothetic 

 combinations, the verbs run as follows: 



5 

 5 

 4 

 4 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 

 3 



For further particulars see Table II. 



The et/Ai — epxa/xM {iXOetv) — fSxivw — combination gives us here a re- 

 markable range of 22 prepositional doublets. The prominence 

 of l(TTT}iii in this connection is interesting. The large number of 

 combinations possible ^ith laT-qixiis due to the predominance of Kara 

 and ava as second elements in its diprothetics. The modification 

 produced in the motion of la-T-qiii by Kino, and ava m composition with 

 it, is not so much a change in its direction as a reinforcement and 

 an extension of it, from opposite points of view. "Up" and 

 "down", like "high" and "deep", are the same idea logically, but 

 from exactly opposite points of view. So the diprothetic com- 

 pounds of la-TrjfXL which have Kara or ava as second element, give, 

 in feeling, practically a monoprothetic resultant. In this same 



