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Bread and circuses

"Bread and circuses" (or "bread and games"; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal (Satires, Satire X), a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.

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LatinMetonymicAppeasementJuvenalRoman
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Satire XCircus gamesPolitical power
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Bread and circuses → Ancient Roman, Ancient Rome, Bread, Carousel, Chinese, Circuses, Latin, Logan's Run, Newspeak, Nineteen Eighty-FourTheatre, Political, RomeInstrumentum, Star Trek, Star TrekBread, The Hunger Games, The Original Series
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Bread and circuses → Annona, CE, In, Juvenal, Roman, Rome, Satire, This, Yet Augustus

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