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point of departure, it is plain, that the idea implied in the one 

 may often be precifely the fame with that conveyed by the 

 other. 



Zv. 



I have already taken notice of Dr Moor's idea, that &g and 

 \v were, both of them, parts of the numeral adjective etg, pia, h, 

 an unfatisfactory derivation, by no means conveying the radical 

 fenfe of either prepofition. As we fought the origin of itg from 

 another quarter, the fame, I apprehend, muft be done with re- 

 gard to h. Linnep's derivation of b, from the verb et[u,fum j 

 and Scheide's fuppofition, that it is a participle from the verb 

 «^s,;, immitto, are certainly inadmiflible ; the former giving no 

 determinate fenfe to the prepofition, and the latter being parti- 

 cularly faulty, as requiring the prepofition itfelf, or one of fimi- 

 lar import, to be joined to the verb, before it could acquire the 

 fenfe there affigned to it. 



Ev, then, I think, may be juftly deduced, and, indeed, muft 

 be actually derived, from the verb a», or tvvva, to clothe, and 

 thence to cover. By direct proceflion from this root, h, whe- 

 ther a verbal fubftantive, or, as is not improbable, a contracted 

 participle, retains the fignification of the verb ; and its radical 

 fenfe may therefore be fet down as clot her, coverer, and, by ge- 

 neralizing this idea, container or comprehender. Let us try how 

 far its various applications may be refolved by this idea. 



The moft natural and common application of ev, is to place, 

 and that in different modes. Ev ^ego-h '£%&>, " I have it in my 

 " hands," — " I have it, — container, — my hands." hi&ot \v rq 

 ukou rr, ILgivzuh KotXapivy xo'hvg, (Theophr.), " abundance of 

 " ftone in the promontory called Erineas," — " abundance of 

 " flone, — container, — the promontory called Erineas." HugxX- 

 "hYfhoygtt.ppa. iv roug uvroug vrugaXXfaoig . (Euclid), " parallelograms 

 " between the fame parallels," — " parallelograms, — container, — 



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