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Show 188 LIBERTY AND SLAVERY. Yea, as Greek scholars, he would have us to believe that OoUAo( may mean a "hired servant," just as well as a slave; and he would have us to believe this, too, not upon the usage of G t•eek WI·iters, but upon his mere assertion! We look for other evidence; and we intend to pin him down to proof, ere we follow him in questions of such momentous import as the one we have in hand. Why is it, then, we ask the candid reader, if the term in question mean "a hired servant," as well as a slave, that no such application of the 'vord ls given? If such applications be as abundant as our author asserts they are, why not refer us to a single instance, that our utter ignorance may be at least relieved by one little ray of light? Why refer us from assertion to assertion, if authorities may be so plentifully bad? We cannot conceive, unless the object be to deceive the unwary, or those who may be willingly deceived. An assertion merely, bolstered up with a " See note," here or there, may be enough for such; but if, after all, there be nothing but assettion ou assertion piled, we shall not let it pass for proof. Especially, if such asset·tion be at war with tn1tb, we shall AltO UMENT FROM TilE SC!tiPTU!tES. 18() track its author, and, if possible, cftace his footprints from the immaculate word of God. If the term OoU).o; signifies "a hired SCl'\7ant," or "an apprentice," it is certainly a most extraordinary circumstance that the best lexicographers of the Greek language have not made the discovery. This were the more wonderful, if, as :l![r. Barnes asserts, the word "is often used in these senses" by Greek WI"itcrs. We have several Greek lexicons before us, and in not one of them is there any such meaning given to the word. Thus, in Donnegan, for example, we find: "ilouJ.o,, a slave, a servant, as opposed to IJ;u;ror~(, a master." But we do not find from him that it is ever applied to hired servants or apprentices. In lik~ manner, Liddell and Scott have "ilouJ.o(, a slave, bondman, strictly one born so, opposed to avilparroilov." But they do not lay down "a hired servant," or "an apprentice," as one of its significations. If such, indeed, be found among the meanings of the word, these celebrated lexicographers were as ignorant of the fact as ourselves. Stephens also, as any one may sec by referring to his "Thesaurus, Ling. Grroc., Tom I. art. LiouJ.o,," was equally ignorant of any such use of the term in question. Is it not a pity, then, that, since such knowledge |