occupy oneself

Ralph Gleis, the museum’s director, said, “You realize that museums are an essential space in society, where one can go to be distracted, to occupy oneself with external things — especially during a crisis, culture is really important.”

And then, in a eureka moment, Habjouqa had a title—Occupied Pleasures—that straddled passive and active meanings: to be occupied under Israel, and to occupy oneself, joyfully and defiantly, in pastime and simple pleasures.

Agito means to occupy oneself with, as Plautus, Asinaria, 5.

As for anything outside of or beyond this, it is at most a beautiful dream of fancy, with which it is quite safe to occupy oneself as long as one clearly understands that of course it is not true.

One should bathe there and occupy oneself in the worship of the Pitris and the gods.