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" companions to go up (or on board) and to "unloofe the 

 " cables ;" — I went — direction of my going — the vefTel — in the 

 order of pofition the reverfe of what is ufual with bodies, i. e. 

 upwards ; I ordered my companions to loofe the cables — line in 

 which they loofed them — tending upwards, or reverfing the na- 

 tural tendency of bodies. 



vyog attgctg 



QqKiv uva. pvpixyv. HOMER. 



" Having raifed them aloft, he placed them on a tamariik," — 

 placed them — point of placing them- — a tamarifk ; — fituation — 

 the reverfe of what is the ufual tendency of bodies, — that is, up 

 or aloft. 



2. As the notion of a return or reverfal always of neceffity 

 prefuppofes the idea of a prior movement or poiition to which 

 this is oppofed, aw, from exprefling only the fecond, came natu- 

 rally to be extended to denote both together. Hence we often 

 find it applied to exprefs the idea of backwards and forwards, up 

 and down j that is, courfe backward, proceeded by courfe for- 

 ward, courfe upward proceeded by pofition downward, or, as 

 jultly and accurately ftated in Mr Dalzel's Fragmenta, " motum 

 " hue et illuc — itionem et reditionem — furfum et deorfum." 

 Avu ru oo'/} v\owu&-xi (Xenoph.) " to wander — courfe of wander- 

 " ing — the mountains ; — firft forwards — then this reverfed or 

 " traced backwards," — hence up and down the mountains, — 

 over the mountains. 



N^a? diva y\a<pvgu$. HOMER. 



" Keep in mind your impetuous courage — by the hollow mips," 

 — going along the fhips — backwards and forwards — firft for- 

 wards, — then that courfe traced back again. 



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