3 68 DISQUISITIONS, fcfc. 



ory itfelf is too refined and philofophical to be admitted as juft 

 in the ufe of a language modified by general ufe, and adapted to 

 the common converfe of men. I have, therefore, all along, ra- 

 ther declined refting on fuch a ground, conceiving it in general 

 to be uncertain and fallacious. I wifhed, in tracing the real 

 fenfe and origin of the prepofitions, to proceed, if poffible, by a 

 different, and what appeared to me a more fatisfaclory route. 

 How far the track I have chofen has enabled me to reach the 

 object in view, muft be left to the judgment of thofe beft ac- 

 quainted with the principles of the language. 



APPENDIX. 



xarucnVro lh &""' avrt>> LuciAN. 



" They fat down, — the one refting or fituate under him." Thefe examples, and 

 many more might he produced, feem to prove the fallacy of the ingenious Pro- 

 feffor's theory, and ihow that the Greeks were by no means fo philofophically 

 accurate in the ufe of their prepofitions as he fuppofed. 



