"Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed...

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...

his personal fortune (as in the proverbial "bread and circuses" – panem et circenses) providing occasional public games, gladiators, horse races and artistic...

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...

entertainment." Collins also explains that the name "Panem" came from the Latin phrase "Panem et Circenses", which means "Bread and Circuses" and refers to...

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,...

in check. The satirist Juvenal, however, saw "bread and circuses" (panem et circenses) as emblematic of the loss of republican political liberty: The public...

(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...

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...

Kyle 1998, p. 14 (including note #74). Kyle contextualises Juvenal's panem et circenses—bread and games as a sop to the politically apathetic plebs (Satires...