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3. Quod altero eft inferius, illud hoc exifti matur minus. Præterea quod fub aliqua re pofitum premitur, omnem fuam vim non poteft exercere, Hinc factum eft, ut uno apud Græcos item ut fub apud Latinos minuat vim vocis adjunctæ, aut fignificet etiam aliquantam fimilitudinem.

4. Quod fub aliqua re eft pofitum, id latet, neque poteft cognofci. Hinc vo in Compofitis permultis fignificat occultum quiddam, et clam aliquid fieri.

5. Quod fub oculis, fub manibus eft, id eft ante nos. Hinc in nonnullis videtur accepiffe eandem vim ac po, et idem valere ac ante, præ.

6. Ut fuperius per metaphoram adhibetur ad fignificandum prius; ita inferius transfertur ad fignificandum pofterius. Unde in Compofitis quibufdam fignificat, aliquid alterum fequi.

7. Qui in alterius locum venit, hunc quafi fequitur et poft eum venit. Quare quum ex n. 6. vno idem poffit valere ac poft; accepit etiam vim fubftituendi.

8. A rebus fuppofitis multa ita pendent, ut fine illis non poffint confiftere et permanere ; multa etiam funt ejufmodi, ut fi quid fupponatur. Hinc ut apud Latinos, Jub, fic apud Græcos o habet poteftatem auxilii et commodi.

9. ᏚᎥ ponas eum, qui aliquo tendit, quafi afcendere; tum, fi revertatur, ad locum inferiorem ire fingitur. Hinc forte factum eft, ut in nonnullis Compofitis idem valeat ac retro. E 3 Quan

Quanquam in nonnullis etiam, qui recedit, inferior poteft exiftimari.

10. Quod fub re aliqua eft, huic eft propinquum. Præterea, quod n. 5. monuimus, ve ύπο idem valere poteft ac po. Hinc etiam præfentiam et propinquitatem notat, et in nonnullis

idem valet ac ad.

11. Si quis opus aggrediatur, incipiat; tum hoc fub oculos, fub manus ejus ante eum pervenit. Quæ caufa videtur effe, cur zo in nonnullis fignificet initium. Initium quoque fignificare poteft, quod incipientis minor fere vis eft'.

2. HACHENBERG has illuftrated each of the above expla nations by Examples of Single Words. It were to be wished, that he had rather cited whole Sentences, and named their feveral Authors.

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1 φιλανθρωπος fignifies literally, the friend of mankind; and thence denotes a perfon to be kind, gentle, courteous, and benevolent to all men. That temper which inclines men to be φιλανθρωποι, is truly characteriftic of a generous and magnanimous foul.

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2. For most cities permitting every one to educate his own children as each may choose, and (permitting) those who are more advanced in years to live as they will, enjoin them not to steal, not to plunder, not to enter by violence into a houfe, not to ftrike any one whom it is not juft (to ftrike:) not to commit adultery, not to difobey the magiftrate, and other things of this nature: and if any one should tranfgrefs against any thing of these, they have appointed punishments for them. But the Perfian laws having taken things higher, provide that their citizens fhall not be at all fuch, as to defire any wicked or base action.

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