368 DIS^UISiriONS, l^c. 



ory itfelf is too refined and philofophical to be admitted as juft 

 in the ufe of a language modified by general ufe, and adapted to 

 the common converfe of men. I have, therefore, all along, ra- 

 ther declined refting on fuch a ground, conceiving it in general 

 to be uncertain and fallacious. I wiftied, in tracing the real 

 fenfe and origin of the prepofitions, to proceed, if poflible, by a 

 different, and what appeared to me a more fatisfadlory route. 

 How far the track I have chofen has enabled me to reach the 

 objedt in view, muft be left to the judgment of thofe beft ac- 

 quainted with the principles of the language. 



APPENDIX. 



xaTI«H>To tit UT* avrtt. LuCIAN. 



" They fat down, — the one refting or fituate under him." Thefe examples, and 

 many more might be produced, feem to prove the fallacy of the ingenious Pro- 

 feffor's theory, and fliow that the Greeks were by no means fo philofophically 

 accurate in the ufe of their prepofitions as he fuppofed. 



