holmes: composition of verbs with prepositions. 135 



From the demonstration of this theorem can be deduced the 

 following corollaries: 



1. A verb unites most readily and first with that preposition 

 which is in a sense an extension of its own meaning. 



2. The converse is also true, that that preposition has the 

 greatest affinity for those verbs which are in line with its own 

 direction. 



3. The character of a verb is best shown by its favorite prepo- 

 sitions, or more narrowly, the best inde.x of a verb is its favorite 

 preposition. 



4. The converse is also true, that the character of a preposition 

 is best shown bv its favorite verbs. 



5. Favoritism is extension, extension leads to exclusion, ex- 

 clusion leads to usurpation. All contribute toward the loss of 

 color of the preposition. 



6. Loss of color in the preposition is attended with a decline 

 of the simple, a narrow^ range of combinable prepositions, followed, 

 perhaps, by emergence in late Greek of the simple or of a strength- 

 ened compound. 



7. Those monoprothetics whicli are extensions of their simples 

 or which reinforce the point of view of the simple, enter most into 

 diprothetic composition. 



8. Those prepositions which preponderate in monoprothetics, 

 preponderate also as second elements in diprothetics. 



9. Those propositions have lost most color which appear most 

 as second elements in diprothetics. 



10. Those prepositions are most conscious which appear most 

 as first elements in diprothetics. 



11. In general, in the formation of diprothetics from a given 

 simple, the formation is made on the basis of the monoprothetics 

 in eK, ets and Kara, instead of in d-rro, Trpo; and dvrt', where choice is 

 possible. 



12. In triproth'^tics, the first element is the most conscious, the 

 second the least, while the third is variable. 



It is the operation of the above principles that defines the Lim- 

 itations of the Composition of Verbs with Prepositions in Thu- 

 cydides. 



