348 DISQUISITIONS on the 



" TER was gone, — condudlors in refpe<5t to place, — the Ethio- 

 " plans, — condudlor in refpedl of objetfl In going, — to hold a 

 " feftival." 



Mera. having often the fenfe of ^fter, frequently transfers that 

 fenfe to the words with which it is joined in compofition. It 

 thus, in many cafes, comes to exprefs a change having taken 

 place, an event different from the one that preceded it. Nce'ai, 

 " I confider." Mirai/oia, " after one mode of thinking I go to 

 " another, — I change my mode of thinking, — I repent." T/^;;/^;, 

 " I place." MiTUTi&n/ji,!, " after having placed the objeds in one 

 " mode, I pafs to another mode of placing them, — I tranfpofe." 

 When f^iTct, in compofition denotes participation, this is nothing 

 more than a transferring of its other fignification ^mon^ or wit/j. 

 "Y.-)(j>i, " 1 have," [t^iriyja, " I have along with, — I partake." 



Whether alone or in compofition, therefore, ^sra appears to 

 be always a fubftantive noun, denoting guide, conductor, or 

 leader in the way. 



It feems to be allowed by the mofl: accurate Greek gramma- 

 rians, that the radical meaning of Ta^a, in one modification or 

 other, is hefides. This, I think, brings us pretty near the primi- 

 tive idea which it was ufed to exprefs. Linnep derives it from 

 the adjeflive ■:!a,^oi, before i and Scheide, both ita^a. and -Traoog, 

 from the verb votu, to pre/s. Both thefe, however, appear rather 

 wide of the proper fenfe of the prepofition. Hcc^ci, in fadl, ap- 

 pears to be an old fubftantive noun, denoting precifely Jide or 

 Jiank. It muft be admitted, that no dired examples of Tagci, in 

 this form of a noun, are to be found, at leaft I have not been 

 able to meet with any fuch j but the fenfe of the word, when it 

 occurs as a prepofition, whether by itfelf or in compofition, fuf- 

 ficiently indicates its original form ; and though, as a noun, it 



does 



