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ffafw TKf vlni Tsjii ufS^/uTm, {Pfahn xlv. 2.), " fair among the chil- 

 " dren of men," — " fair, — objects placed belide, — the children of 

 " men." 



We find Ta^a alfo applied in two different modes, which at 

 firft fight might be deemed oppofite, but, rightly explained, are 

 found to accord. It is ufed fometimes to exprefs that a thing 

 falls fhort of, fometimes that it goes beyond, the object with 

 which it is connedled. Teira-a^axoi/ra 5raf« ^/otc, (2 Cor. xi. 24.), 

 " forty bating one," — " as far as one on this fide of forty *."' 

 lla^a roi/ %oTa.^ov 'i<piuyot, " they fled beyond or to the farther fide 

 " of the river," — " fide where their flight terminated, — the ri- 

 " ver." Ilafa, in both thefe cafes, radically means ai the fide of, 

 and nothing more ; the particular fide, whether nearer or more 

 remote, being left to be difcovered from the conneflion of the 

 fentence f. 



With the genitive, :r«fc» pretty frequently, though not iini- 

 verfally, is made to fignify/rowz at, or from hefide an objed:. n«- 

 ^a ZoLdiXioii "jfo^ivoi^ivov, "coming from befide the king." In fuch 

 phrafes where it is evident a complex fenfe is affixed to the 

 word, I fufpedl a compound prepofition has originally been in 

 ufe, viz. «-«^e«, a prepofition flill frequently met with, and ex- 

 adly exprefling this idea. By degrees, it is probable the tx, came 

 to be dropped, the meaning in mofl cafes being fufficiently plain 

 from the conhedlion. Such omifllons may be found in every 

 language, and, to thofe accuftomed to the idiom, they occafion 

 no ambiguity. 



n«^« in compofition frequently denotes fome deviation from 

 the exa<ft idea expreffed by the conneded word. Aoyi^oi^ai, " I 



Vol. v.— p. II. Z z " reckon ;" 



* This, I believe, however, is a mode of exprefSon not very commoo. 



t " Ddas fignificationes contrarlas patitur," fays Vigerus, " fupra et infra," 

 but does not attempt by any explanation to reconcile this apparent contradiftion. 



