GREEK PREPOSITIONS. -21 



5. From a particular view of the primitive idea of fronting or 

 facing, dvr), when both preceded and followed by the fame 

 noun, came fometimes to denote addition or accumulation; be- 

 caufe, when two quantities of the fame commodity were placed 

 fronting each other, this could not be for the purpofe of ex- 

 change, but rather that the one fhould be added to the other, to 

 complete a mafs. Hence fuch phrafes as dviag dvr) dniuuv, " for- 

 " rows — in front — forrows," — forrows added to forrows, — accu- 

 mulated forrows; x<x,gt» dvr) ftugiros, "grace — in front — grace," 

 grace added to grace, — abundant grace. In Englifh we have 

 adopted a fomewhat fimilar idiom, only inflead of employing 

 the word denoting front, we ufe its correlative after 7 — faying 

 " day after day ," — " grief after grief." 



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The Greek prepofition dno, and our Englifh prepofition from, 

 are univerfally allowed to be nearly equivalent in fenfe ; and 

 probably it may be found, that the origin of both has been in a 

 fomewhat fimilar line. That dro, like other prepofitions, was 

 originally a noun, there can be little doubt 5 evident traces of 

 the cognates and derivatives of this noun being flill to be met 

 with. Thus, befides the prepofition dvo, we find in ufe diro as 

 an adverb, denoting far off, with its derivative oivafav *, from 

 far ; and though the adjective <x,Kog f dijlant or remote, appears to 

 have become obfolete, yet its comparative dirwrz^og, farther, and 

 fuperlative dvarurog, farthejl or mojl remote, are frequently found. 

 The word clrog, likewife as a fubftantive nouns, occurs once, 

 and, I believe, but once, (Eurip. Phceniff.), and the lexicogra- 



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" rioAAov yag utto itXvni iurt 5roA««?. 



" For the ciiterns are at a great diftance from the town." 



Apollon. Sophist, in voce . 



