n^6 DISQUISITIONS on the 



" companions to go up (or on board) and to unloofe the 

 " cables ;" — I went — direcflion of my going— the veffel — in the 

 order of pofition the reverfe of what is ufual with bodies, /. e. 

 upwards ; I ordered my companions to loofe the cables— Hne in 

 which they loofed them — tending upwards, or reverfing the na- 

 tural tendency of bodies. 



'yi|/os aei^oii 



Qtjusii cii/a f/,upix>iii. HOMER. 



" Having raifed them aloft, he placed them on a tamariflc," — 

 placed them — point of placing them — a tamariik ; — fituation — 

 the reverfe of what is the ufual tendency of bodies, — that is, up 

 or ^Io/l 



2. As the notion of a return or reverfal always of neceffity 

 prefuppofes the idea of a prior movement or pofition to which 

 this is oppofed, dm, from exprelEng only the fecond, came natu- 

 rally to be extended to denote both together. Hence we often 

 find it applied to exprefs the idea of backwards and forwards, up 

 and down s that is, courfe backward, proceeded by courfe for- 

 ward, courfe upward proceeded by pofition downward, or, as 

 juftly and accurately ftated iil Mr Dalzel's Fragmenta, " motum 

 " hue et illuc — itionem et reditionem — furfum et deorfum." 

 Kiu. TO. oofj '^rXociai&xi (Xenoph.) " to wander — courfe of wander- 

 <( ing — the mountains ; — fir ft forwards — then this reverfed or 

 *' traced backwards," — hence up and down the mountains, — 

 over the mountains. 



^ijjff-ac&s Si dovgioof aX«?j 



N^as civa, 'yXa(pvsug. HoMER. 



" Keep in mind your impetuous courage — by the hollow fhips," 

 — going along the fliips — backwards and forwards — firfl for- 

 wards, — then that courfe traced back again. 



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