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" him." St/f <ro< [jt.a.'x,oif^r,v, " I would fight with your aid," — 

 " I would fight, — perfon joined to me in fighting, — you." "ri? 

 61 eiri (Tw Qiu ei^niJi.ivov, (Herodot.), " that it was fpoken to 

 " him by divine authority," — " that it was fpoken, — circum- 

 " ftance joined thereto, — divine authority." 



The only two remaining prepofitions in Greek are mi^ and 

 v%o, Thefe are evidently derived from the fame root, and 

 in their radical fenfe denote the fame idea, though, by a dif- 

 ferent mode of applying it, their common acceptation has the 

 appearance of being nearly oppofite to each other. The origi- 

 nal of both was the adjedtive utos, fignifying high. Of this ad- 

 jedlive, though fallen into difufe, there are many immediate de- 

 rivates and cognates to be found : "Tirog, high or fublime, height or 

 elevation ; v-\)r,'ko<;, lofty; and direcftly arifing from the primitive 

 word, the comparative v'^s^og, contracted from uiron^og, higher, 

 and the fuperlative uvarog, contradled from vTrorarog, highejl or fu- 

 preme. From the comparative oVsjo?, comes the prepofition uts^, 

 radically denoting a higher objeB, hence commonly ufed to ex- 

 prefs placed over another. The analogy of the Englilli prepofi- 

 tion was fimilar J over being the comparative of tlie adjedive op 

 or ob, afpirated into ov, whence by a regular formation came the 

 comparative over. 



"Tt'i^, then, appears to have originally denoted, that one objedl 

 was higher in refpedl of, or in comparifon with another with 

 which it was connedled ; and, in this cafe, the noun to which 

 the radical force of the prepofition refers, is the one that precedes 

 it in the fentence, differing in this from moft of the other pre- 

 pofitions, and in particular, as we fhall immediately fee, from its 

 cognate v'jto, which generally refers to the one that comes after. 



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