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"I'll be furious, if Tribune Aquila will let me" (media.piefed.social)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago

Probably a refusal to accept the legitimacy of Caesar's triumph, or Caesar's general victorious position after the civil war. Aquila may have been on the Pompeiian side.

It was very much a deliberate slight, but not much more than that. Like flipping a head of state off at their inauguration.