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point of departure, it is plain, that the idea implied in the one 

 may often be precifely the fame with that conveyed by the 

 other. 



I HAVE already taken notice of Dr Moor's idea, that as and 

 ev were, both of them, parts of the numeral adjedlive «?, fji^ia,, h, 

 an unfatisfadlory derivation, by no means conveying the radical 

 fenfe of either prepofition. As we fought the origin of «? from 

 another quarter, the fame, I apprehend, muft be done with re- 

 gard to h, LiNNEp's derivation of ev, from the verb eiiu,/um j 

 and Scheide's fuppofition, that it is a participle from the verb 

 «/«.<, immitto, are certainly inadmiflible ; the former giving no 

 determinate fenfe to the prepofition, and the latter being parti- 

 cularly faulty, as requiring the prepofition itfelf, or one of fimi- 

 lar import, to be joined to the verb, before it could acquire the 

 fenfe there afllgned to it. 



Ec, then, I think, may be juftly deduced, and, indeed, muft 

 be adlually derived, from the verb sa, or uvva, to clothe, and 

 thence to cover. By diredl proceflion from this root, ec, whe- 

 ther a verbal fubftantive, or, as is not improbable, a contradled 

 participk, retains the fignification of the verb ; and its radical 

 fenfe may therefore be fet down as cloth^r, coverer, and, by ge- 

 neralizing this idea, container or comprehender. Let us try how 

 far its various applications may be refolved by this idea. 



The moft natural and common application of ev, is to place, 

 and that in different modes. Ee ;^ef(r<i' l-)(o), " I have it in my 

 " hands," — " I have it,— container, — my hands." A/^oj h rtj 

 uKoct rj E^icsaJ; xa.Xii{jLiv}j ToXvg, (Theophr.), " abtmdance of 

 ** ftone in the promontory called Erineas," — " abundance of 

 " ftone, — container, — the promontory called Erineas." Ha^aX- 

 J^'koy^ot.fji^fx.a, it roilg avrcug -Tra^aX'kri'Kots. (Euclid), " parallelograms 

 " between the fame parallels," — " parallelograms, — container, — 



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