GREEK PREPOSITIONS. 34$ 



does not itfelf occur, yet in fome of its immediate derivatives, 

 traces of the fame fignification remain. Thus, in Greek, we 

 have ■TTcc^uoi, a cheek, and in Latin we find the adjedive par, 

 " equal," both evidently defcendants from this root; the former 

 denoting the fide parts of the head, the latter an objeA corre- 

 fponding fide for fide with another. As, therefore, the Englifli 

 prepofition befide, is nothing but a contracted form of being fide, 

 that is, being the fide of an objedt ; fo the Greek prepofition -Tta- 

 g«, befide, may juftly be fet down as a noun fignifying fide or 

 jlank ; and from the different afpedls under which an objedl may 

 be viewed, as occupying the fide of another, the different appli- 

 cations of va.ga. take their rife. 



In the mathematical writers this is plain. n«fa th lo6&ca.v 

 tvSeioiv vx^ocXXTjXoy^a.f/.fAov ■zuga.Sa.Xav, (EuCLId), " to conftru(5l a 

 " parallelogram upon (as commonly rendered) a given ftraight 

 " line," — " to conftru6t a parallellogram, — fide of it, — a given 

 " ftraight line." And in compofition, r«fa7rX;jfsY*«T« va.^a.'KXn'Xo- 

 y^ocpuf^n, " the complements of a parallelogram," as commonly ren- 

 dered, mean exactly the Jide fillers. 



In writers of a different clafs the fame meaning appears. Kt- 

 Xc/oj 5r«^a xiXo'ioii i(^uvsi, (Aristot.), " daw fits befide daw,"^ — 

 " daw fits, — fide, — daw.' 



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v»^oc K^ora,(pm r\ irajeiocj. HoMER.. 



" The cheeks befide the temples," — " the cheeks, — fide, — the 

 " temples." 



uyo^riii rj Ta^a. iitjviri rirvxro' HoM, Od, 



" The market-place which was formed befide the fhips," — 

 " which was formed, — fide or flank of the market-place,— ob- 

 " j.ea by which the market-place was flanked, — the fhips." 



