{"id":58,"date":"2003-04-16T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2003-04-16T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/04\/16\/statues-just-velunt-moveri\/"},"modified":"2003-04-16T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2003-04-16T17:46:16","slug":"statues-just-velunt-moveri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/2003\/04\/16\/statues-just-velunt-moveri\/","title":{"rendered":"statues just velunt moveri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have gotten a dispensation to depart from the assigned topics and write my Latin paper on two words in the Pygmalion story &#8211; &#8220;velle moveri&#8221;.  As in:<\/p>\n<p>virginis est verae facies, quam vivere credas,<br \/>\net, si non obstet reverentia, velle moveri:<\/p>\n<p>i.e.<br \/>\nHer appearance is that of a real maiden, whom you might believe to be alive,<br \/>\nand, were it not for reverence, to want to move<\/p>\n<p>The passive infinitive &#8220;moveri&#8221; can simply be intransitive in sense &#8211; &#8220;to move [herself]&#8221; &#8211; but the primary sense is more like &#8220;to be moved&#8221;.  I am going to research whether there might be some lewd subtext to this choice of words and the passive voice.  &#8220;Moveo&#8221;, not surprisingly, has many meanings (think of all the different ways &#8220;move&#8221; can be used in English), and some of these come close to swiving &#8211; e.g. &#8220;to strike&#8221; (compare the English &#8220;fuck&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>So I get to use the OLD and the TLL and &#8220;The Latin Sexual Vocabulary&#8221; and some secret classics library for which I need to get a key.  I&#8217;m hoping to find space to bring up a comparison to the creepy Warren and his &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; April on Buffy (not to mention the fabulous Buffybot!).  But I only have two pages to work with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have gotten a dispensation to depart from the assigned topics and write my Latin paper on two words in the Pygmalion story &#8211; &#8220;velle moveri&#8221;. As in: virginis est verae facies, quam vivere credas, et, si non obstet reverentia, velle moveri: i.e. Her appearance is that of a real maiden, whom you might believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/desultor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}