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facts eftablifhed by this fyftem, it is afcertained, that in thefe 

 primitive roots, one fignification belonged to verbs where the ra- 

 dical confonant was the fame, though the vowels were varied. 

 That thus, for inftance, the roots zua and zzu originally denoted 

 the fame idea, though, in the progrefs of the language, the tra- 

 ces of one of the roots might be loft. Now the verb zico muft 

 evidently have been the prefent indicative active, whence the de- 

 fective verb in common ufe, KS^ui, " I lie," originally was 

 formed, this laft being the perfect paflive, with the augment 

 omitted. Upon this analogy, zza, and of courfe its cognate zuu t 

 fignified to lay, or lay down ; and kutu, a verbal noun, proceed- 

 ing from this root, had originally the literal meaning of laying 

 place, lying place, or place where an object was lying or laid 

 down. This fenfe we fhall find it ftill retains, in its different ap- 

 plications, in the form of a prepofition. 



JLvfleiu riTf^rjTca xutcc to A a-fif^etov, (Euclid), " the line is* cut at 

 " the point D," — " the line is cut, — laying place, or place where 

 " the cut lies, — the point D." '2vf/M7rrtra<ru,v zee,™ to K, (Eu- 

 clid), " let them coincide at K," — " let them coincide, — point. 

 " where the coincidence lies, — K." 



Kara pwxtjia, irvzvu z&f/,e0ei. Hom. Od. 



l \ We lie, — laying place, or place where we were laid, — the thick: 

 " bufhes," — " among the thick bufhes." 



Tu, [a\v 'huvop'iQa, zutu <r<p7<ri. ■ APOLLON. 



"Thefe things we will divide among them," — "thefe things we 

 "will divide, — place where the divifion lies, — them." Kara fio- 

 giav \$r\zo)t;, (Thucyd.), " {landing or fituate toward the north,"" 

 " — fituate, — point where the fituation lies, — the north." 



This fenfe of zutu, correfponds precifely with what is ufually 

 attributed to it when joined with the accufative, viz. appojitionj 



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