36o DIS^ISITIONS on thf 



2tiv, in regard to its application, is one of the fimpleft of the 

 Greek prepofitions ; its radical and primitive meaning being in 

 every cafe eafily perceptible. Its origin appears to be in the 

 verb ffua, to few, or to join together, — a verb vi^hich thongh obfo- 

 lete and out of ufe in Greek, being fupplanted by the fyno- 

 nymous word pa.'jrrw, has, however, been retained unchanged in 

 Latin, a circumflance which warrants the inference, that in the 

 earlier flages of the Greek language, when the ^olic, the imme- 

 diate parent of the Latin, was the common dialecS, e-l/a), in the 

 fenfe of joining, was in general ufe. Of this verb trlu, trw feems 

 to have been a contraded participle paflive ; and thus in its radical 

 meaning denotes joined, obje6l or circuwjlance joined, the analogy 

 being the fame with what has been £hewn in the "E^rea Ilre- 

 ^oivra, to take place in regard to the Englifli prepofition with, 

 a part of the verb wit ban to join. 



From this radical fenfe of a-un all its various ufes naturally take 

 their rife, all of them implying jundion in place, time, or a(fl- 

 ing. 'E^'x,6i/.(d(n hfJ^^i c'"' co', {John xxi. 3.), " we come with 

 " you," — " we come, — objedl joined, — you." To Z'^o rrn oXjk 

 (Tvv rn v^offKui^hn, (EIclid), " the fquare defcribed by the 

 " whole line, together with the part added," — " the whole line, 

 " — objeft joined thereto, — the added part." Ivv -irao'i r^roig 

 uXXo X.U.KOV lyimro, " together with all thefe another misfortune 

 " happened, — " another misfortune happened, — circumflance 

 " joined, — all thefe before enumerated." Ivv ru letTcv&'j uirnXCi, 

 " he went away in time of fupper," — " he went away, — event 

 "joined in time to his going away, — fupper." 



2yv u ^ 'TXas Ktiv. Afollon. 



" With whom went Hylas." — " Hylas went, — perfon joined 



" him." 



