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Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses. — Juvenal

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Only two things does he anxiously wish for-bread and circuses.

In the original Latin

Duas tantum res anxius optat: panem et circenses.

Juvenal
Satires · 127
★ 7.3

On the modern (at that time) Roman citizen.

Provenance
Current citation
Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.
Original citation
Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

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