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XapoKoros, a bon vivant, a man of pleasure, a voluptuary. 
leans Lo a } to be fragrant, odorous. 
pooxoBoda, 
khaboyupila, to spin round and round and lose one’s way. 
dpbapopavas, for &vapyas, 7.¢., clearly, distinctly, bodily. 
avatroo.ala, to do a thing perversely, awkwardly. 
uyorradior, an adopted son, son of my soul. 
uyoTovew, to sympathise. 
pLovoTratiov, a footpath. 
TANALOYOUPVOLUTNS, a swine-snouted old sot. 
KOO LOYUpLTYS, a world-perambulator, said of the sun. 
avatrodoyupila, to turn upside down. 
CULTOTOM, to amount to. 
Bpedoupya, to make incarnate. 
orraTahokpop.aoys, an onion-gourmand. 
BopBoxrurila, to din the ears, obtundo. 
poo-XoKapvor, nutmeg. 
eroplahwo, to cast an envious eye on. 
ExpvoTnpiacopat, to reveal. 
KpacomTaTepas a wine-bibber. 
These examples, and a host of others that might be adduced, show how 
absurd it is to class under the head of corruption those changes in a long- 
lived language, which indicate a buoyant juvenescence rather than a withered 
decrepitude of expression. Let us now turn our attention to those changes in 
the form of the language, which fall distinctly under the category of Loss or 
ABATEMENT, though by no means necessarily under that of DEFACEMENT and 
DISFIGUREMENT. 
Proposition X V.—As language, in long ages of neglect and semi-barbarism, 
is used by the masses principally for purposes of convenience, it is plain that 
considerations of an esthetical nature, such as influence men of genius and 
high culture in their use of language, will be subordinated ; and the purely 
scientific considerations, on which the philologer puts a high value, will not 
influence the popular mind at all. Carelessness, convenience, custom, and 
sometimes mere freak, fashion, and the itch of novelty, will produce important 
changes in the structure of a language which a delicate sense of harmony, and 
a scientific perception of organic completeness, would alike repudiate. Among 
the phenomena of this kind which continually tend to break down the classical 
form of words, those known to grammarians under the heads of apheresis, 
apocope, and syncope, are the most frequent. But, not to encumber a plain 
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