GREEK PREPOSITIONS. 32.7 



wards in practice omitted, Sia, came to be ufed alone for line, 

 /price, point or obj'eii pierced, penetrated, divided, pajfed over, or 

 crojfed. 



From this the various applications of the word, as it appears 

 in the form of a prepofition, took their rife. 



A/«, as applied to /pace, was ufed to denote : 



I. and mod ufually, through. 



nixsxvg eitri ^lot, t5 ^cvSgis, — " the axe goes through the tree," 

 " — the axe goeSj — odje^ penetrated, — the tree." KvzXas kCxXo'j 

 ha. rav -jroXav Tif^^vn, (Theod. Sp^r.), " Let one circle cut another 

 " through the poles," — " points pierced or penetrated in cutting, — 

 ^^ the poles. ''^ '^■jr'fjn^ov ixSiSXrifbivoi/ ha, rw xivr^n rug yag xou rov 

 aXiS, (Archimed.), " a plane drawn through the centre of the 

 " earth and the fun," — " drawn, — points pierced or penetrated in- 

 " drawing jt, — the centre of the earth and the fun." 



a;yX^ h^ diSi^og txe. HoMER. 



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" The gleam came through the air," — " medium penetrated in its 

 " coming^, — the air,'.' 



2. Across. 



A«' aXog (pigovTcci, — " they advance acrofs the fea," — ** they 

 " advance, — ohJeSi or place pajfed in advancing, — the Jea." 



E/ji/jniiva-ag. Hesiod. 



" Which blowing through Thrace, famed for rearing horfes,— 

 " on the wide fea," — " blowing, — place pajfed or crojfed in hlow- 

 " ing, in order to reach the fea." 'Emgivero h' A'/yvTrrng hg hiQvTiv, 

 " — he marched through Egypt to Libya," — " marched, — place 

 " croffed or palfed in marching to Libya, — Egypt.." 



The only difference between thefe two applications of S'/a con^- 

 fills in this, — that, in the former, the internal part of the objedl 



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