The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.