GREEK PREPOSITIONS. 



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fometimes transferred to exprefs during, as it were, ^long a parti- 

 cular period. 



Kserec iivxroi ^rnXuvripoat. Anacr. 



" I wander during the night," — " I wander along the period of 

 " night." Sometimes, too, by an extenfion of this fignification 

 to modes of relation, yMta. came to be ufed to denote according to, 

 that is, in the fame diredion \vith another. Kar' iiKo^a. rs ktI- 

 ffuvTog, {Colojf. iii. lo.), " according to the image of the maker, — 

 " formed, — diredion of the form, — the image of the maker." 

 The Latin prepofition correfponding to this •mzsfecundum, evi- 

 dently the gerund oi fequor, and {i^miying following. The analo- 

 gy in the formation of the prepofitions in the two languages was 

 pretty fimilar. 



Again, another fecondary fenfe which came to be affixed to 

 xam, was down. This application of the word arofe, either, as 

 Dr Moor fuppofes, becaufe down being the natural direction 

 •which bodies take when left to themfelves, the word which de- 

 noted diredlion fimply, was applied to fignify this natural ten- 

 dency ; or, what is fully as probable, becaufe an objedl lying or 

 laid down, occupies the loweft pofition of which it is fufceptible. 

 In whichever of the two ways it happened, it is certain, that a 

 very common ufe of smto. is to fignify down. "Cliu^titn Kara, r» 

 xjpjp», " he rufhed down the fteep," — " he ruflied down, — place 

 " where the movement lay, — the fteep, — diredion, — that which 

 " bodies take when left to themfelves," — " or that which puts 

 " them in the loweft place they can occupy. 



x,aTci hi (r(pi KiXcuvov, 



A/jifc' onreXa'^sr' e^«^'. Hesiod. 



" The black blood flowed down them to the ground," — " the 



" blood flowed, — place where the movement lay, — them, — di- 



Vox. v.— P. II. Y y " reaion,— 



