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Explanation: When Rome began to be ruled by Emperors, not only did they still regard themselves as a republic, but they remained ardently anti-monarchist (with regards to who ruled them - they were fine with other countries having kings).
He’s JUST the first citizen!
Funny enough, Greek cities would often write to the Emperor calling him ‘basileus’ (‘king’) during the first ~300 years of the Empire - whereas the imperial secretaries would write back, thank them for their concerns or whatever they were writing about, but insistently in the name of simply ‘Caesar’ or the ‘Autokrator’ (‘self-ruler’, ‘autocrat’, or ‘dictator’, as one prefers).
NOT A KING
NOT A KING
I completely appreciate that the Greeks DGAF and kept at it for three centuries.
Greeks paying tribute: “How are you today king? 👑”
The Emperor, nervously glancing at the Senate: “H-ha ha, v-very good of you Hellenes to gift the Republic with such a magnificent crown, we’ll just put this in the public treasury…”
