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xuga, t4s v%$ tuv uvdgojzuv, [Pfalm xlv. 2.), " fair among the chil- 

 " dren of men," — " fair, — objects placed befide, — the children of 

 " men." 



We find t^« alfo applied in two different modes, which at 

 firft fight might be deemed oppofite, but, rightly explained, are 

 found to accord. It is ufed fometimes to exprefs that a thing 

 falls fhort of, fometimes that it goes beyond, the object with 

 which it is connected. Teowciguxovroi vuga plow, (2 Cor. xi. 24.), 

 " forty bating one," — " as far as one on this fide of forty *." 

 1T««« rlv Korupov 'ityevyov, " they fled beyond or to the farther fide 

 " of the river," — " fide where their flight terminated, — the ri- 

 " ver." II«^a, in both thefe cafes, radically means at the fide of 

 and nothing more ; the particular fide, whether nearer or more 

 remote, being left to be difcovered from the connection of the 

 fentence j\ 



With the genitive, voigci pretty frequently, though not uni- 

 verfally, is made to fignify//"0»z at, ox from befide an object. Ha- 

 gu Cua-iXea? irogevofievov, "coming from befide the king." In fuch 

 phrafes where it is evident a complex fenfe is affixed to the 

 word, I fufpect a compound prepofition has originally been in 

 ufe, viz. iruguc, a prepofition flill frequently met with, and ex- 

 actly exprefling this idea. By degrees, it is probable the ex came 

 to be dropped, the meaning in moft cafes being fufEciently plain 

 from the connection. Such omiffions may be found in every 

 language, and, to thofe accuftomed to the idiom, they occafion 

 no ambiguity. 



Ila^ec in compofition frequently denotes fome deviation from 

 the exact idea exprefTed by the connected word. Aoyifyput, " I 



Vol. V.— P. II. Z z " reckon ;" 



* This, I believe, however, is a mode of expreffion not very common. 



f " Duas fignificationes contrarias patitur," fays ViGERUS, " fupra et infra," 

 but does not attempt by any explanation to reconcile this apparent contradiction. 



