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Quotation from Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de La Boétie
“Publick Theatres, Plays, Farces, Shews, Gladiators, Foreign Wild Beasts, Medals, Pictures, and suck like Amusements, were to the Ancients the Decoys of Servitude, the Price of their Liberty, and the Instruments of Tyranny.”
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Of Voluntary Servitude, on the baits of tyranny, trans. Anonymous (1735)
The list of entertainments by which ancient rulers kept their subjects content; 'suck' is the 1735 printing's misprint for 'such'.
Citation: "Publick Theatres, Plays, Farces, Shews, Gladiators, Foreign Wild Beasts, Medals, Pictures, and suck like Amusements, were to the Ancients the Decoys of Servitude, the Price of their Liberty, and the Instruments of Tyranny." — Étienne de La Boétie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Of Voluntary Servitude, on the baits of tyranny, trans. Anonymous (1735). (id discourse-on-voluntary-servitude-q5)
