GREEK PREPOSITIONS. 3 6 5 



" covers him from view, — confequently, in that fenfe, may be 

 " faid to be above or high in regard to him." 



2. It is applied in fome particular cafes to denote a portion 

 of time. The idea feems to have been exprefTed elliptically in 

 fuch cafes, fomething more than bare duration being implied ; 

 an intimation being alfo given, that the portion of time fo 

 marked out was diftinguifhed by fome property conducive to 

 the action. 



q^i V7T0 VVKTl. Apollon. 



" He came under night," i. e. " under cover of night." 'Aws&j 

 $s vto c-kotx, " he went off under darknefs," — " under cover of 

 " darknefs." Here the primitive idea of vto is ftill difcerni- 

 ble, though more remotely marked ; the properties which di- 

 flinguifh night or darknefs being reckoned the cover or pro- 

 tedlor of the coming or going off. By a fimilar analogy arifes 

 our Englifh expreffion under night. 



3. It fometimes expreffes the relation of fuperiority and/ub- 

 jection. The connection with the primitive idea is here perfect- 

 ly obvious. A'/yvvTo; £s KaXiv i/no QuffiXecg iyevzro, " Egypt came 

 " again under the government of a king," — " Egypt came to be 

 " again in the fituation in which a king was the high or govern- 

 " ing power in the ftate." 'Tko Heg<rri<rtv i?) Ayl'vvrog, (Herod.), 

 " Egypt is under the dominion of the Perfians," — " Egypt is in 

 " fuch a fituation that the Perfians are high in regard to it." 

 "E%ojv vt' epuvrov Fguriarug, {Math. viii. 9.), " having foldiers un- 

 " der me," — " having foldiers in fuch a ftate that I am high in 

 " regard to them." 



4. 'Tto is not unfrequently applied to denote the agent, injlru- 

 ment, or directing caufe of an action. This application probably 

 arofe from the idea, that as in the agent, inflrument or directing 

 caufe, there was plainly implied fome fort of power or dominion 



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