GREEK PREPOSITIONS. 339 



" line (landing, — place or object adhered to, prefTed, or clofe 

 " touched in its {landing, — another ftraight line." 'Eo-' Atyvv- 

 m gUiv *,. (Thucyd.), " to flow towards Egypt," — " to flow, — 

 " place adhered to, prefTed, or touched in its flowing, — Egypt." 

 2. As applied to time. 



Tig irguTog ; rig Vt iiti ffgura ; EuRIP, 



" who firfl, and who next after the firfl ?" — " who fir ft, — and 

 " who adhering to, prefling, or clofe-touching the firft," — 

 " juft after the firfl ?" 



"0%**i sk '°% vr } yrigMo'Mi' Homer. 



" pear grows old after pear/' — " pear grows old, — event clofe- 

 " touched in point of time, — the growing old of another pear." 



o<r<rov ohx,o\g iit'i rgirov ripccg o\vv<rsv\. Dion. Geog. 



" As much as a fhip of burden would pafs in three days," — 

 " would pafs, — period adhered to, touched or reached in this 

 " pafTage, — the third day." 



3. As applied to relation, pojfejfion or occupation. 



TuV OVTUV T» (AiV iflV «'<p' h(MV, TO, hi, OVK £(p' 7I[MV, (EPICT.), " Of 



" things fome are in our power, others not," — " fome are fo 

 " conftituted, that the objedl adhered to, prefTed, or clofe-touch- 

 " ed by them, is the line of our power, or the line of our reach." 

 'Eri ro7g ytysvripivoig fcu'ktxug (pegetv, "to be difpleafed in confe- 

 u quence of what has taken place," — " to be difpleafed, — point 



" or 



* This example is direcYly againft Dr Moor's hypothefis, that liri with the ge- 

 nitive denotes motion upon, and with the accufative, motion direEled upon ; here it 

 has the latter fignification with the genitive. The fame thing holds in many other 

 inftances, in the bell and moll accurate Greek writers, 



