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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt:...Soph. (Ed. Tyr. 765, rwc &/ pSXex dffi' fjplu iu ziftt K&xiu; 'would that he might quickly come fiozotatv, 'at the river.' In such examples, iv has really the meaning of' in,' but in the accommodated sense in which it marks with its case the circumstances or conditions in which an action occurs or an object stands. Except as a mere concession to the English rendering, it is improper to say that iv has the sense of at,' 'in,' 'near.' As above explained, pp. 245,247, the phrases iv rip EuStivtp r6vrp, iv ro«f Avjxzpoe and the like, are not to be understood literally as meaning 'in, within, the Euxine sea,' 'in, within, Leuctra,' but as descriptive generally of the circumstances of an action or object as regards its place, and so as to embrace also the adjoining region as well as the place itself. Other similar expressions are iv oopeat,'on (in) the mountains,' iv?ktt«c, ' on horses,' 'on horseback,' iv &p6votz, 'on seats' or in seats,' (See Passow's Lex.): e.g. Plat. Legg. i. p. 625, B, dvdxaukau iv roFc lxprtX6iz divSpetriv tlat axtapai, 'there are shady resting-places on (in, among) the high trees;' II. iv. 422--3, «i 3' 5t' iv acpai.p 7to).urtyrii xopa ftaXAoarfi opvur' iiramrvrepov, Zup'jpou bitoxtvrjoavroz, 'as when a wave on the resounding shore of the sea;' II. iv. 455, Twv di re ryXoee iwzov iv ooptatv IxXvt izotpv,'and the sound of them the shepherd hears on (in) the mountains afar off.' In some of these and like examples, iv may be fairly interpreted as having its common signification of in,' as in iv ovpeot, 'in the mountains,' iv ro?c ulrjXdtz div8pemv,'in the high trees.' In others, as in iv t-zot;, 'on horses,' on horseback,' iv aiytaktp, 'on the shore,' the preposition and noun must be understood as marking, not liter...