jao DIS^UISI'TIONS on the 



3. P RZFERZxcE, — becaufe what is mofl valuable is conceived 

 and fpoken of as occupying the front or foremort; place. Avt) 

 y^^rjf^uTm eXscS-ai r*iv ^o|))v ^rj, (IsoCR.) " glory fhould be taken in 

 *' preference to riches," — glory fliould be taken as an objedl, 

 holding the place in front of, or in a more honourable rank, — 

 than riches. 'Of iyu (ptifci dn) ■Tranuv tuv lnOd'^i dyuvav ilvai, (Pla- 

 " to), which I aver to be the bed of all contefts," — which I aver 

 10 be a contefl — holding the front or firft; rank of all contefts. 



x.uy^.'ko;, 



AvT Uiffxidm u'jra.ffuv, 



Avr iyyjiCDii awafrwi'. AnAcR. 



" Beauty — preferable to all fliields — preferable to all lances," — 

 " beauty — holding a rank in front of, or before all fliields and 

 " all lances *." 



4. Substitution, — for the reafon juftly ftated in Mr Dalzel's 

 Fragmerta ; " verifimillimum eft am primitus ufurpatum fulfle 

 " ad defignandum alterum poni contra alterum, id qiiod fieri fo- 

 " lebat antiquiflimis temporibus, qi;um merces elTent coiTunu- 

 " tandae, vinde facillinae transferebatur ad indicandum ipfani 

 " mercium commutationem vel quodlibet fuffecfbum in locum 

 " alterius." 'Kir dykitvii fuffoi iv^ui^ai, " inftead of, or in return 

 *' for love, to find hatred," — to find hatred — when the objecl put 

 in front of it was love. Eigrivri avr) Toxiy.ou (Thucyd.) " peace in- 

 " ftead of war," — peace — objeifl fet in front, for which it is to be 

 taken in exchange — war. 



From this laft application of dvTi, it has come to be generally 

 ufed by the Greek writers in fpeaking of commodities fold, to 

 exprefs their price. Examples are unneceflary. 



5. From 



* Such phrafes are frequently refolved, by fuppofing unl, when it fo occurs to 

 denote comparifon or contrajl only : but this appears to be infufficient ; for though 

 all preference implies contraft, all contrail does not imply preference. 



