It is curious that afxcjils should pass from around to
far from, from the idea of contiguity to that of distance :
/Sapvi Se TapTapo^ cifipii, and the deep Tartarus around,
at a distance ; apyaXeov, Tocrov yjpovov afjL<pts eovra,
eiTrevai, difficult to say, fcr one who has been so long
at a distance ; but this notion of distance is still very
vague : ^aXe kukXu afxipli, she placed the wheels at
either side ; tjuyov ci/x^i? eepyei, the yoke parts them ;
here we have the idea of separation. The columns of
the Atlas, says the Odyssey, support and separate earth
and heaven, yaiavre koi ovpavov afjL(f)Li e-^ovariv. The
horses left the track, a/j.(pis oSov Spa/jieT^v. Athene
and Hera stood apart from Zeus, Aioy aix<piq. To hold
different opinions, aficph (ppoveiv.
The inquiry leads to even more curious results in
Latin, because the use of circa, circum, having prevailed,
the traces of the primitive abhi, and even of the first
terra a or am, must be sought in words which are often
but ill explained. The most developed form appears
to us at once in ambo, both, amhivium, amiidens ; in
amhire, ambitus, ambitio, to go round, circuit, ambition ;
ambigere, ambiguus, ambages, to tergiversate, ambiguous,
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342 The Indo-European Organism.
