{"id":60,"date":"2005-10-17T23:18:01","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T03:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.2\/~curculio\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-09-01T17:55:05","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T22:55:05","slug":"what-did-seneca-know-about-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"What Did Seneca Know About Babies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much, to judge by <em>E. M.<\/em> 22.15, where <em>Natura<\/em> addresses those dying old:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Sine cupiditatibus uos genui, sine timoribus, sine superstitione, sine perfidia ceterisque pestibus; quales intrastis exite.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"blue\">&#8220;I engendered you without desires, without fears, without superstition, without treachery and the other curses; go out as you were when you came in.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Very eloquent, but since when are babies born <em>sine cupiditatibus<\/em>? They have very little else in mind except a few basic desires: to be fed, held, kept clean and warm, and allowed to sleep, all with very little notice and the expectation of immediate obedience. What was Seneca thinking when he wrote this?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been leafing through the <em>Epistulae Morales<\/em>, rereading the two dozen or so I&#8217;ve read before and dipping into others. Time to read them through? Perhaps not: there are an awful lot of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much, to judge by E. M. 22.15, where Natura addresses those dying old: &#8216;Sine cupiditatibus uos genui, sine timoribus, sine superstitione, sine perfidia ceterisque pestibus; quales intrastis exite.&#8217; &#8220;I engendered you without desires, without fears, without superstition, without treachery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=60\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-literature","tag-seneca-the-younger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}