354 DISQUISITIONS on the 



Tlig) fometimes, both fimply and in compofition, denotes fupe- 

 riority, plainly from the idea, that the object which forms a 

 boundary or circumference to another, muft of courfe exceed it 

 in bulk or greatnefs. 



■ 'Er< iti£i voov Cgorav. LuciAN. 



" It is beyond the comprehenfion of mortals," — " it is fuch that 

 " it is capable of going round, and confequently exceeds the 

 " comprehenfion of mortals." 



It was obferved, in the remarks upon d^<p), that in Latin cir- 

 ca and circum exprefTed the idea of round or round about. Thefe. 

 are both nouns, precifely fimilar in their force and meaning to 



Ugo is fuppofed by Linnep to be the fame with wgog, and by 

 Scheide to be a part of the adjective -zugog, before. The former 

 appears evidently erroneous, the two prepofitions, though fo 

 nearly related in found, being in fact very different, as we fhall 

 find, both in origin and meaning. The latter idea, however, 

 that irgo is a part of xagcg contracted, feems extremely probable. 

 The adjective nccgog, lignifying properly fore, is (till in ufe. In 

 fpeech this word, like many others, might fufFer an abbrevia- 

 tion of the firfl; fyllable, and be pronounced ir.gog inftead of nct- 

 gog. From this contracted adjective we have the comparative 

 ngoTsgog, prior t and the fuperlative wgoTurog, contracted into ngarog, 

 foremojl or firfl. Of this adjective vgog, the prepolition vgl ap- 

 pears to be the dative, fignifying, therefore, with a fubftantive 

 underftood as in other inftances, the fore part, fore object \, or ob- 

 ject in front j and as it was always followed by the genitive cafe 

 of the fucceeding noun, and the genitive cafe in Greek has ufu- 

 iuly the fame force with the particle of in EnglHh, viz. [pedes or 



kind, 



