3 2o DISQUISITIONS on the 



3. Preference, — becaufe what is molt valuable is conceived 

 and fpoken of as occupying the front or foremoft place. Avr) 

 ygnparuv eXecS-en rfjv Ito&v ygri, (Isocr.) "glory fliould be taken in 

 " preference to riches," — glory fliould be taken as an object, 

 holding the place in front of, or in a more honourable rank, — 

 than riches. Ov \yu (firifAi dn) kuvtuv rm hOuSi dyavav i7i>ui, (Pla- 

 " to), which I aver to be the beft of all contefts," — which I aver 

 to be a conteft — holding the front or firft rank of all contefts. 



KaWog, 



Avr dtrxiovv a^utrvVf 



Avr lyyiuv a^avrav* AnACR. 



tl Beauty — preferable to all fhields — preferable to all lances," — 

 * beauty — holding a rank in front of, or before all fhields and 

 " all lances *." 



4. Substitution, — for the reafon juftly ftated in Mr Dalzel's 

 Fragment a J " verifimillimum eft Sin) primitus ufurpatum fttifle 

 " ad defignandum alterum poni contra alterum, id quod fieri fo- 

 " lebat antiquiffimis temporibus, quum merces effent commu- 

 " tandae, unde facillime transferebatur ad indicandum ipfam 

 " mercium commutationem vel quodlibet fufFectum in locum 

 " alterius." 'Avr dya-v/is fu<rog evgu&ui, " inftead of, or in return 

 w for love, to find hatred," — to find hatred — when the object put 

 in front of it was love. E/^vjj an) iroXipov (Thucyd.) " peace in- 

 " ftead of war," — peace — object fet in front, for which it is to be 

 taken in exchange — war. 



From this laft application of dvr), it has come to be generally 

 ufed by the Greek writers in fpeaking of commodities fold, to 

 exprefs their price. Examples are unnecefTary. 



5. From 



* Such phrafes are frequently refolved, by fuppofing uvt!, when it fo occurs to 

 denote comparifon or contraji only : but this appears to be infumcient ; for though 

 all preference implies contraft, all contrail does not imply preference. 



