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noun xegc&s, a termination, limit, or terminating boundary. This 

 noun in the genitive forms wzguTog, which, according to the com- 

 mon analogy and practice of the language, would be gradually 

 contracted into veguog and vegwg, and laftly abbreviated into ir^ug 

 or vgog. If this deduction be correct, (and I think it bears the 

 marks of truth), the radical fenfe of the prepofition vgog mult be 

 exactly termination, or terminating in. From this idea all its dif- 

 ferent fenfes may naturally be traced. 



In the mathematical writers, we find vfog retaining its pri- 

 mitive meaning. 'At vgog rn Qaast yuviat, (Euclid, L. i. p. 4.), 

 *' the angles at the bafe," — " the angles; — termination, — the 

 " bafe, — terminating in the bafe." Tqv %Xzv^v rgog ralg Ucctg yo- 

 v'tcug, (Euclid, Lib. 1. pr. 26.), " the fide betwixt the equal 

 " angles," (as commonly rendered), " the fide, — termination, — 

 " the equal angles, — the fide whofe terminations are the equal 

 " angles." Tl^og rag 7oiv kvxXuv trigtipsgdotg evOetu KgogQXridoJC'iv, 

 (Theod. Lib. 2.), " let flraight lines be drawn to the periphery 

 " of the circle," — " let ftraight lines be drawn, — termination, — 

 " the periphery of the circles." 



The application of <xzog to other fenfible objects, is refolvable 

 in a fomewhat fimilar manner. 



■ Kgog ftzv aXog KSigzg. HOMER, 



" The Carians at the fea," — " the Carians, — boundary the fea, 

 " whofe country is bounded by it." 



ttoti vroXiog mriT aid. Homer, 



" He flill continued flying towards the city," — " he continued 

 " flying, — termination of his flight, — the city." 



'At ft.iv irgog Qogiao xctTccQoiiTtti uvOgcoTrotirtv. HOMER. 



" Thofe to the north are paflable for men," — " thofe, — termina- 



" tion 



