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■DISQUISITIONS on the 



" or objed\ which the difpleafure touches, or adheres to, — the 

 " things that have happened." 'O Wi rav i>i[/.o<riaii Xoyuv, " the 

 " officer over the pubUc accounts," — " the perfon fo occupied, 

 " — that the pubhc accounts are the objedl touched or adhered 

 " to in his occupation *." 



Et/ t' e'lXccmi/uig, hcc) ira^ot. i&7rvot<;, 

 EvooiiTO. EURIPID. 



" Who invented fongs as an accompaniment at feftivals, at con- 

 " vivial entertainments, and at feaftings," — " fongs, — objedl or 

 " event which they are made to adhere to, touch, or clofely ac- 

 *' company, — feftivals and entertainments." 



It would be tedious to go through the multifarious quota- 

 tions brought together by Stephens and Vigerus, as various 

 meanings of IttI in the Greek writers ; all of them may with 

 little difficulty be refolved, either in a direcfl or fecondary fenfe, 

 into the idea of being preffed, adhered to, touched clofely^ handled, 

 or fome equivalent circumftance. 



Kara. 



In tracing the origin of xccra., a difficulty occurs from the 

 want of a radical verb, correfponding properly in fignifica- 

 tion with the fenfe of this prepofition. The difficulty, however, 

 is removed, when we take into view the fyftem of cognates, as 

 evidently found to exlft in the Greek language f. From the 



fads 



* Perhaps, in this and fimilar phrafes, there is a reference to the fecondary 

 fenfe of ets;, " to handle or work upon, — hence to manage ; — the fame feems to 

 hold in fuch expreffions as o iiri t?; wo^koc, " the governor of the city," — " he who 

 " is fo placed — that the objeft handled or managed by him is the city." 



f Some obfervations on this fubjefl; have been thrown into an Appendix, be- 

 ing too long for a note. 



