352 DISQUISITIONS on the 



"reckon;" TugoLXoy'tfyput, u I reckon falfe, I mif reckon." The 

 idea here is plain : the primitive word is fuppofed to mark a di- 

 rect courfe, and vugci, fignifying fide, marks, that inftead of 

 holding this direct courfe, the perfon goes to a fide. 



We find, then, <ragu, in all its different applications, retaining 

 its original meaning of a fubftantive noun, denoting fide, in fome 

 one particular point of view. 



. This is a prepofition of more uniform and fimple application 

 than the preceding. It is evidently an immediate cognate ofa-e- 

 £«s, a boundary, and I mould conjecture it to be the dative of this 

 very noun, contracted from srl^'ar; and v'igui to nig). Its precife 

 meaning, therefore, is circumference, a word equivalent to entire 

 boundary. Hence, it is eafy to fee, how otptp) and «£} come to 

 have nearly the fame figni fixation ; the former expreffes the objecl 

 contained j the latter, its correlative, the containing boundary. 

 Hzg), therefore, may be rendered, in general, circumference or boun- 

 dary, or bounder. 



It is thus that the fenfe of it is to be refolved. 



— Trio) a-Taovc. Homer. 



'" Round the den," — " bounding or furrounding — the den." 

 \vbvvi frejfl srjfo<r<riv yjtma.. Hom. Od. 



u He put a tunic round his breaft," — " he put a tunic, forming 

 *\ the boundary of his breaft." 



5rj£< pobiouriy iig<n>i r/iKSTott. Apollon. Rhod. 



" The dew diflils round the rofes," — " the dew diftils, — a cir- 

 " cumference to the rofes," — " forming a circumference to the 

 " rofes." Taj *ig) Tr t v dtuy.STgov vcigctXXqXoygau,fj>,uy } (Euclid), 



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