• "Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed...
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    Relatively unknown Italian climber Alfredo Webber, aged 52, free soloed Panem et Circenses in Arco, Italy, first-ever free solo of an 8c (5.14b). 2004 : Alexander...
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  • entertainment." Collins also explains that the name "Panem" came from the Latin phrase "Panem et Circenses", which means "Bread and Circuses" and refers to...
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    republican sobriety and severity of a people who now aspired only to panem et circenses, bread and spectacles, Fronto (100–166), in almost the same words...
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    about their freedom—are only interested in "bread and circuses" (panem et circenses 10.81; i.e. food and entertainment), that—rather than for wealth,...
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    his personal fortune (as in the proverbial "bread and circuses" – panem et circenses) providing occasional public games, gladiators, horse races and artistic...
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    in check. The satirist Juvenal, however, saw "bread and circuses" (panem et circenses) as emblematic of the loss of republican political liberty: The public...
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    (German for Bread and Games – a translation of the famous Latin phrase panem et circenses from the satires of Juvenal). Trier has been the base for the German...
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  • Machiavelli in his The Prince. Bread and circuses, also known as Panem et circenses – Figure of speech referring to a superficial means of appeasement...
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    Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan. Artisan Books. ISBN 978-1-57965-727-7. "Panem et Circenses - This Week in Palestine". Archived from the original on 2018-11-19...
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