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5. From a particular view of the primitive idea of fronting or 

 facing, avr), when both preceded and followed by the fame 

 noun, came fometimes to denote addition or accumulation; be- 

 caufe, when two quantities of the fame commodity were placed 

 fronting each other, this could not be for the purpofe of ex- 

 change, but rather that the one fhould be added to the other, to 

 complete a mafs. Hence fuch phrafes as a,na<; avrl a-ncnav, " for- 

 " rows — in front — forrows," — forrows added to forrows, — accu- 

 mulated forrows ; "x^oi^'v dvTt ;^a^(To?, "grace — in front — grace," 

 grace added to grace, — abundant grace. In Englifh we have 

 adopted a fomewhat fimilar idiom, only inftead of employing 

 the word denoting front, we ufe its correlative after, — faying 

 " day after day," — " grief after grief." 



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The Greek prepofition «to, and our Englifh prepofition /ro;;/, 

 are univerfally allowed to be nearly equivalent in fenfe ; and 

 probably it may be found, that the origin of both has been in a 

 fomewhat fimilar line. That d'?ro, like other prepofitions, was 

 originally a noun, there can be little doubt ; evident traces of 

 the cognates and derivatives of this noun being flill to be met 

 with. Thus, befides the prepofition dvo, we find in ufe kvo as 

 an adverb, denoting far off, with its derivative cixak]) *, from 

 far ; and though the adjedlive aVo?, dijlant or remote, appears to 

 have become obfolete, yet its comparative dvuTi^oi, farther^ and 

 fuperlative d'sarurog, fartbejl or moji remote, are frequently found. 

 The word axos, likewife as a fubftantive nouns, occurs once, 

 and, I believe, but once, (Eurip. Phceniff.)^ and the lexicogra- 



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" For the cifterns are at a great diftance from the town." 



Apollon. Sophist, in voce . 



