352 DIS^UISrtlONS on the 



" reckon;" i:a.au>.cy'iZpi^t*'h " I reckon falfe, I ml/reckon.'^ The 

 idea here is plam : the primitive word is fuppofed to mark a di- 

 recl courfe, and ra^a, fignifying Jule, marks, that inftead of 

 holding this dired courfe, the perfon goes to a fide. 

 ■ We find, then, xk^o., in all its different applications, retaining 

 its original meaning of a fubftantive noun, denoting 7?^'^, in fome 

 on6 particular point of view. 



This is a prepofition of more uniform and fimple appUcation 

 than the preceding. It is evidently an immediate cognate of ts- 

 f k;, a boiindtiry, and I fliould conje«5lure it to be the dative of this 

 very noun, contrad^ed from ■zi^ccn and ^reja; to ts^;. Its precife 

 meaning, therefore, is circumference^ a word equivalent to entire 

 boundary. Hence, it is eafy to fee, how c:^(pl and -tti^) come to 

 have nearly the fame fignification ; the former expreffes the objeSi 

 contained; the latter, its correlative, the containing boundary. 

 risff, therefore, may be rendered, in general, circumference or boim- 

 ddry, or bounder. 



It is thus that the fenfe of it is to be refolved. 



TTi^^ ffTTciovc. Homer. 



'• Round the den," — " bounding or furrounding — the den." 



itilu'ji ■zip) sYihtra-rj vnuvu. HoM. Od. 



" He put a tunic round his breafl," — " he put a tunic, forming 

 " the boundary of his breaft." 



-zi^t poViotfft'j 'li^fffi rriKnat. ApOLLON. F.hod. 



" The dew diftils round the rofes," — " the dew diftils, — a cir- 

 " cumference to the rofes," — " forming a circumference to the 

 " rofes." Tw> TSf) Tr,v hia.f/.iT^ov ira.^a.^.V.riXo'y^ce.i/^^m, (EucLID), 



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