GREEK P REPOSITIONS. 31g 



the poas Jet up bejore the entry ', that is, the Jronting part of a 

 hoiife. 



Front or Jetce, then, appears to be the radical fenfe of am. 



I^evog «m QvpiQt " fet or placed— front the door," — front- 

 ing the door — before the door. 



Ai/t veKioto tirguppwiig) (Hesiod), " turned— front the fun," — 

 fronting the fun *. 



Though Jront was the original and radical meaning of d VT ), 

 yet it is to be obferved, that the immediate and dired ufe of the 

 word, in this fenfe, feems to have been in a great meafure fu- 

 perfeded by fome other prepofitions. It is in the fecondary ap- 

 plications, chiefly, arifing out of this primary idea, that we find 

 wm employed by the Greek writers. Thefe fecondary applica- 

 tions are principally four,— oppojition, comparison, prejerence and 

 JubJlitution, 



i. Opposition,— becaufe fronting or facing is both the natural 

 attitude of direa hoftility, and the moil obvious mode of re- 

 tarding or counteracting what we wifh to prevent. 



'Aw] dvdgog I'™, (Homer), " go— objea fronting or meeting 

 you in face— the man,"— againft the man j" Amhiyct tovtop xf 

 yov, " I contradid that fpeech,"— « I f pea k in face of that 

 " fpeech." 



2. Comparison,— becaufe placing objeas fo as to make them 

 front or face each other, is the moft common and ready mode 

 of enabling us to compare and contraft them. 'Agyvgw d»r) Qow, 

 ' filver compared with oxen,"— filver— objea put in front or 

 contrafted— oxen. BowXwg dvr) pugiw hi sga.rtmm,— u a king 

 " is comparable to ten thoufand foldiers,"-— " a king is— objea 

 ' fet in front to be compared— ten thoufand foldiers." 



Vol.V-P.II. Tt z . Pre , 



* In this phrafe, which occurs, ' Efy « *rf 'H^«< (line 725) it is plain that am 

 can mean nothing but in front. 



