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!
Nam qui dabat olim imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, panem et circenses.
Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.
Nam si tibi sidera cessant, nil faciet longi mensura incognita nervi, quamvis te nudum spumanti Virro labello viderit et blandae adsidue densaeque tabellae sollicitent, autos gar ephelketai andra kinaidos.
Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
We are now suffering the evils of a long peace. Luxury, more deadly than war, broods over the city, and avenges a conquered world.