343 DISQUISITIONS on the 



" ter was gone, — conductors in refpect to place, — the Ethio- 

 " pians, — conductor in refpect of object in going, — to hold a 

 " feftival." 



Mira, having often the fenfe of after, frequently transfers that 

 fenfe to the words with which it is joined in compofition. It 

 thus, in many cafes, comes to exprefs a change having taken 

 place, an event different from the one that preceded it. Nosa>, 

 " I confider." Meruvoiu, " after one mode of thinking I go to 

 " another, — I change my mode of thinking, — I repent." Tifypi, 

 " I place." MsTurifaf/.i, " after having placed the objects in one 

 " mode, I pafs to another mode of placing them, — I tranfpofe." 

 When {MTU in compofition denotes participation, this is nothing 

 more than a transferring of its other fignification among or with. 

 "Ex, a > " 1 have," p,6re%a, " I have along with, — I partake." 



Whether alone or in compofition, therefore, ^sra appears to 

 be always a fubflantive noun, denoting guide, conductor, or 

 leader in the way. 



Tla^a. 



It feems to be allowed by the mofl accurate Greek gramma- 

 rians, that the radical meaning of vuga, in one modification or 

 other, is befides. This, I think, brings us pretty near the primi- 

 tive idea which it was ufed to exprefs. Linnep derives it from 

 the adjective vugog, before j and Scheide, both itt*.^ and vugcc, 

 from the verb -raw, to prefs. Both thefe, however, appear rather 

 wide of the proper fenfe of the prepofition. Itc^a, in fact, ap- 

 pears to be an old fubflantive noun, denoting precifely fide or 

 flank. It mufl be admitted, that no direct examples of o-a^a, in 

 this form of a noun, are to be found, at leafl I have not been 

 able to meet with any fuch j but the fenfe of the word, when it 

 occurs as a prepofition, whether by itfelf or in compofition, fuf- 

 ficiently indicates its original form ; and though, as a noun, it 



does 



