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LATIN - Panem et circenses
Category: QUOTES AND PHRASES
Language: LATIN
"Bread and circuses" is a metonymic phrase referring to superficial appeasement. It is attributed to Juvenal, a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century CE, and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
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