GREEK PREPOSiriONS. 339 



" line Handing, — place or objedl adhered to, prefTed, or clofe 

 " touched in its ftanding, — another ftraight line." 'Ett' Alyvit- 

 ru §iiiii *, (Thucyd.), " to flow towards Egypt," — " to flow, — 

 " place adhered to, prefled, or touched in its flowing, — Egypt." 

 2. As applied to time. 



T/f irguros ; tU Se st/ T^Zra ; Eu R IP, 



" who firft, and who next after the firft ?" — " who firft, — and 

 " who adhering to, prefling, or clofe-touching the firft," — 

 « juft after the firft ?" 



' O-^rirj lit "Xi"? yti^cio'xii. Homer. 



" pear grows old after pear," — " pear grows old, — event clofe- 

 " touched in point of time, — the growing old of another pear." 



» oWoc oXx«5 eV/ r^irov tifbot^ avvffffr^. DiON. Geog. 



" As much as a fliip of burden would pafs in three days," — 

 " would pafs, — period adhered to, touched or reached in this 

 " paflage, — the third day." 



3. As applied to relation, poJJ'eJJion or occupation, 

 Tftiv ovTuv T« jM-es' i?iv i<p' rifjuv, to. hi ovx. eip^ riy.^'iii, (EPICT.), " Of 

 " things fome are in our power, others not," — " fome are fo 

 " conftituted, that the objedl adhered to, prefled, or clofe-touch- 

 " ed by them, is the line of our power, or the line of our reach." 

 'E-jri To7g yiysun/^ioo'S ^ccXczag (pi^eiv, "to be dlfpleafed in confe- 

 " quence of what has taken place," — " to be difpleafed, — point 



* This example is direftly againil Dr Moor's hypothefis, that liri with the ge- 

 nitive denotes motion upon, and with the accufati-ve, motion direBed upon ; here it 

 has the latter fignification with the geniti-ue. The fame thing holds in many other, 

 inftances, in the bell and moft accurate Greek, writers. 



