Other · Juvenal; translated by G. G. Ramsay · 1918

Juvenal's Satire 10 (G. G. Ramsay translation, 1918), the source of "bread and circuses": a people that once ran the empire now wants only bread and games.

Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things—-Bread and Games!