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tlie pofts /^? ?//> before the entry ^ that is, tht fronting part oi a 

 hoiife. 



Front or face, then, appears to be the radical fenfe of am. 



IraiM-sws avr) 6vgt]g, " fet oi" placed — front the door," — front- 

 ing the door — before the door. 



AvT r,i>.ioio nr^ay^iLVjog, (Hesiod), " turned — front the fun," — 

 fronting the fun *. 



Though yVo»/ was the original and radical meaning of avr), 

 yet It is to be obferved, that the immediate and direcSl ufe of the 

 •word, in this fenfe, feems to have been in a great meafure fu- 

 perfeded by fome other prepofitions. It is in the fecondary ap- 

 plications, chiefly, arifing out of this primary idea, that we find 

 avTi employed by the Greek writers. Thefe fecondary applica- 

 tions are principally four, — oppofition, comparifon, preference and 

 fubjlitution. 



1. Opposition^ — becaufe fronting or facing is both the natural 

 attitude of dire(fl hoftility, and the moft obvious mode of re- 

 tarding or counteradling what we wifli to prevent. 



'AvT dvi^o; tra, (Homer), " go — objedl fronting or meeting 

 you in face — the man," — againfl; the man j" uvriXiya tovtqv Xq- 

 yov, " I contradi<S that fpeech," — " I fpeak in face of that 

 " fpeech." 



2. Comparison, — becaufe placing objects fo as to make them 

 front or face each other, is the mofl common and ready mode 

 of enabling us to compare and contrail: them. 'A^yu^iov dvit Qouv, 

 " filver compared with oxen," — filver — objed: put in front or 

 contrafled — oxen. B«(r<Xsyj d,vri i^v^lm 6s-< s^arKUTuv, — " a king 

 " is comparable to ten thoufand foldiers," — " a king is — objedl 

 " fet in front to be compared — ten thoufand foldiers." 



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* In this phrafe, which occurs, 'Efy« k«) 'Hj«!f«i (line 725) it is plain that ant 

 can mean nothing but in front. 



