34© DISQUISITIONS on the 



fi or object which the difpleafure touches, or adheres to, — the 

 " things that have happened." 'O Wi ray %ny,o<riav Xoyav, " the 

 " officer over the public accounts," — " the perfon fo occupied, 

 " — that the public accounts are the object touched or adhered 

 " to in his occupation *." 



Olrivsg v^vag zni y*iv §a\i<x,ig t 

 Et/ r etXwxivoiig, xa) -ra^a o&woig, 

 Evgovro. EURIPID. 



" Who invented fongs as an accompaniment at feflivals, at con- 

 " vivial entertainments, and at feaftings," — " fongs, — object or 

 " event which they are made to adhere to, touch, or clofely ac- 

 '*' company, — feflivals and entertainments." 



It would be tedious to go through the multifarious quota- 

 tions brought together by Stephens and Vigerus, as various 

 meanings of iv) in the Greek writers ; all of them may with 

 little difficulty be refolved, either in a direct or fecondary fenfe, 

 into the idea of being pre/fed, adhered to, touched clofely^ handled, 

 or fome equivalent circumftance. 



Ka 



ra. 



In tracing the origin of kktoc, a difficulty occurs from the 

 want of a radical verb, correfponding properly in figniflca- 

 tion with the fenfe of this prepofition. The difficulty, however, 

 is removed, when we take into view the fyftem of cognates, as 

 evidently found to exift in the Greek language *f\ From the 



facts 



* Perhaps, in this and fimilar phrafes, there is a reference to the fecondary 

 fenfe of sw, " to handle or work upon, — hence to manage •, — the fame feems to 

 hold in fuch expreffions as o \iri tSj wixio^ " the governor of the city," — " he who 

 " is fo placed — that the object handled or managed by him is the city." 



\ Some obfervations on this fubjecl: have been thrown into an Appendix, be- 

 ing too long for a note. 



