^^6 DISQUISITIONS 0/1 the 



" the fame parallels." Tiuaa'KXtiXo'yguf/^i^oi/ (rurr,i}-otSai Iv r^ lo&eicr} 

 yu'/iu,, (Euclid), " to conftrud; a parallelogram, — container, — a 

 •' given angle," — " a parallelogram formed with a given angle." 

 'El/ tZ oixi) iy.u.6i^tro, (John xi. 20.), " flie fat in the houfe," — * 

 " container, — the houfe." 'EXaj^/s-jj ^'v roii riysfjuoa-it/ luSx, (Mat. 

 ii. 6.), " lead among the chiefs of Judah," — " leaft of thofe, — 

 " container or comprehender, — the chiefs of Judah, — of thofe 

 *' whom the title Chiefs of Judah comprehends." KctTiCaiHii e» 

 T^ KoXuQrid^u, (John v. 4.), " he defcended into the pool," — " he 

 " defcended, — container of him after his defcent, — the pool." 

 'E}^6eiv it) 'EXXa,h, " to come into Greece," — " to come, — contain- 

 " er after the coming, — Greece." In thefe two laft examples, 

 and others of a fimilar nature, the intermediate ftep is, as it 

 were, overlooked, being underflood as neceffarily implied in the 

 completion of the action. In the Englifh prepolition into, the 

 expreffion is more full, though the order of the two prepofitions 

 of which that word is compounded, is, as it were, inverted, — to 

 implying the termination of the motion by which a place is 

 reached, and m the pofition of the objedl, after having been fix- 

 ed at its place of deftination. 



Ell is alfo applied to time; and in this application the fame re- 

 fblvition of it may be made. Ev litra. tjf^i^ai? ciTohfirxovriv, (HiP- 

 pocR.), " they will die within feven days," — " they will die, — 

 " period comprehending the time of their dying, — feven days." 

 Ev (TTovSou? eTo/'jio-e, " he did it during the truce," — " he did it,— 

 " container of the time of doing it, — the truce." 



Ev is likewife ufed in exprefling modes of action. Eh mXraii- 

 xu) dicovrioig yua.yivra.i, (Xenoph.), " they fight" (as ufually ren- 

 dered) " •with fhields and darts," — " they fight in the way of 

 " fhields and darts," — " they fight, — container of their mode of 

 " fighting, — the ufe of fhields and darts." ' A'jroxrSmi iv pofA,(pccia. 

 ^ Iv >.if/.to, (Apoc. vi. 8. J, " tokill in the way of fword and fa- 



