Re: Fiat Lux

>> Not quite, _ua:pula:re_ (active) means: 'to be beaten, to be flogged'; and
>> there may be one or two others.
>
>And <irruma:re>. In the fashion of older Latin-English dictionaries, I won't
>actually define it here. :)
I was going to point that out (though even newer Latin dictionaries seem to
prefer not to define this word), as well as venere "to be sold." It's
interesting that fieri is usually given as the perfect of facere, and venere
of vendere, but I've never seen vapulare cited as the actual passive of
verberare nor irrumare as the passive of fellare... these seem to be
considered separate verbs, rather than suppletive passives. For irrumare
there are definite idiological reasons thought ;)
 Sorry if my previous post was a bit redundant with other things that
have now been said in this thread, as I tried to post it yesterday but it
bounced.

 Oh, and as for the other half of this thread: I think what Muke was
trying to say is that the let in "let there be light" is parallel to the let
in "let us dance," i.e. it's a helping verb for an optative used as a
subjunctive, rather than a request for permission or some such.

-JDM

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