What do you make of "vacare" in Baker's sense? I ran across a phrase in
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica I, vii, concerning the martyrdom of St.
Alban. A pagan judge asks Alban about his pedigree and Alban defiantly
answers, "Christianum iam me esse Christianisque officiis vacare
cognosce." Is this a standard use of the term, as in an administrative
or martial execution of duty?
Stephen
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