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He found almost a panic above, where they had not understood the shout "Panem et circenses," and supposed it to be a new outburst of rage. They had not even expected that Petronius would save himself; so Nero, when he saw him, ran to the steps, and with face pale from emotion, inquired, "Well, what are they doing? Is there a battle?"
Domitian massacred senators with impunity, and only fell 'postquam cerdonibus esse timendus coeperat. If an autocracy does not rest on the army, which leads to the chaos of praetorianism, it must rely on 'panem et circenses. Hence it has some of the worst faults of democracy, without its advantages. As Mr.
Panem et circenses! was the watchword of the Roman populace when hungry or wearied. The nation was really in a most admirable situation. It never knew the prosaic occupation of labour.
But besides supplying panem he also provided circenses to an extent never known even in the days of Louis XV. State aid was largely granted to the chief theatres, where Bonaparte himself was a frequent attendant, and a willing captive to the charms of the actress Mlle. Georges.
Consequently, we have not now a man for a deputy. But why should we complain? Does not Paris undertake to live, to think for us? Does she not deign to cast to us, as of yore the Roman Senate cast to the suburban plebeians, our food for the day-bread and vaudevilles 'panem et circenses'. Yes, Monsieur, let us turn from the past to the present to France of to-day!
"Verbum caro, panem verum, Verbo carnem efficit; Sitque sanguis Christi merum " Always blood and always blood! The carpet stretched before him like a red river; the roses lay like blood splashed on the stones Oh, God! Is all Thine earth grown red, and all Thy heaven? Ah, what is it to Thee, Thou mighty God Thou, whose very lips are smeared with blood! "Tantum ergo Sacramentum, Veneremur cernui."
The Romans have left us golden words with regard to the fickleness of the populace; we have our Horace, our Juvenal, we have our Johnson; and in this vaunted age of reason it is, that we surrender ourselves into the hands of the populace! Panem et circenses! Mr. Caddis repeated it, after his fathers; his fathers and he had not headed them out of that original voracity.
He, too, adapted, from a design in a drug-store window picturing a sponge fisherman in action, the cross-section illustration for news. Within a few weeks he had displaced the outdated art editor and was in receipt of a larger salary than the city editor, who dealt primarily in news, not sensations, panem not circenses. Sensationalism of other kinds was spurred to keep pace with the sex appeal.
Dr Stella sticketh not to say, distribuit salvator mundi panem discumbentibus. Sect. 3. But now having heard Bishop Lindsey, let us hear what Paybody will say. Thus is their languages divided. Bishop Lindsey did yield to us, that when Christ took bread they were sitting; and his conjecture was, that this gesture of sitting might have been changed after the taking of the bread.
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