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DISQUISITIONS on the 



Suv. 



2vv, in regard to its application, is one of the fimpleft of the 

 Greek prepofitions ; its radical and primitive meaning being in 

 every cafe eafily perceptible. Its origin appears to be in the 

 verb irvu, to few, or to join together, — a verb which though obfo- 

 lete and out of ufe in Greek, being fupplanted by the fyno- 

 nymous word puwra, has, however, been retained unchanged in 

 Latin, a circumflance which warrants the inference, that in the 

 earlier flages of the Greek language, when the iEolic, the imme- 

 diate parent of the Latin, was the common dialect, <rva, in the 

 fenfe of joining, was in general ufe. Of this verb avu, <rw feems 

 to have been a contracted participle pamve ; and thus in its radical 

 meaning denotes joined, objeel or circumflance joined, the analogy 

 being the fame with what has been fhewn in the "Ena Un- 

 gotna, to take place in regard to the Englifh prepofition with, 

 a part of the verb wit ban to join. 



From this radical fenfe of <rvv all its various ufes naturally take 

 their rife, all of them implying junction in place, time, or act- 

 ing. 'EgyjopiQa, ypei$ trvv col, {John xxi. 3.), " we come with 

 " you," — " we come, — object joined, — you." To Zito r« oXrn 

 avv ry rgorxeiftivti, (Et'cuD), " the fquare defcribed by the 

 " whole line, together with the part added," — " the whole line, 

 " — object joined thereto, — the added part." Ivv tuci r^rotg 

 uXXo zukov ly'ivzTo, " together with all thefe another misfortune 

 " happened, — " another misfortune happened, — circumflance 

 " joined, — all thefe before enumerated." 2yv ru letnmv uvrjXh, 

 " he went away in time of fupper," — " he went away, — event 

 " joined in time to his going away, — fupper." 



2fv u %} 'TXccg rJev. 



Apollon. 



" With whom went Hylas." — * Hylas went, — perfon joined 



" him." 



