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" mine," — " to kill, — container of the mode of killing, — the ope- 

 " rations of fword and famine." 



Lastly, ev is fometimes employed, when relation isfignified. 

 Ev e^M.o< lii, " it is in my power, — within my reach," — " it is, — 

 " container or comprehender, — me, — container of this obje<5t, — 

 • ' the line of my agency." -: 



By a particular mode of phrafeology, the Greeks fometimes ap- 

 pear to have made ufe of iv, where we might have fuppofed \k or 

 (kiro fhbuld have been employed. Ev ^'iv^^x Ko^rrup x\a.ioy, " to cut 

 *' a branch from the tree," — " to cut a branch, — container of the 

 " place where it was cut, — the tree." In our mode of expref- 

 fion, from would have been ufed, as denoting the point of depar- 

 ture. In the Greek phrafeology, it was fufficient to mention the 

 place where the adion took effeit. 



The Greek prepofition h, it mayjuft be remarked in pafling, 

 appears evidently the primitive of the Latin prepofition in, and, 

 through it, of the fame prepofition in mofl of the modern Euro- 

 pean languages. But, from fome of the preceding examples, it 

 will alfo appear, that the primitive word was made ufe of in a 

 more extended fenfe than is to be found in its various defcen- 

 dants. 



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This prepofition is one of thofe which Dr Moor has brought 

 forward as a principal illuftration of his ingenious theoi-y of the 

 variations of the force of the Greek prepofitions, according to 

 the different cafes of their connected nouns. Some particular 

 examples, it is certain, feem to fupport this theory, but others 

 as ftrongly militate againfl: it ; fo that I muft regard it as 

 by no means fufficiently eftabliflied : but whether true or not, 

 does not much concei-n the fubjed of the prefent inquiry ; for, 

 even admitting the truth of this theory, it goes very little way 

 in aflifting us to develope the radical fenfe of the prepofitions. 



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