King? My dear senators, he is most definitely not a king. In spite of the Carthaginians' difference in ways to ours, they are still a republic, if less so than ours.

Senators, I disagree about the enslaving of Gauls. Do us Romans truly want the filthy barbarians dirtying our splendid countryside of Italia and our civilised brothers in Sicily? Also, we need not destroy all barbaric structures, as these can be refined by our expert craftsmen, trained in Rome herself. I propose that we batter the Gauls into subjugation, forcing the status of protectorate upon them. If they refuse to comply, we will be justified in the annexation of Gaul, or at least the seizure and extermination of their key settlements of Georgovia and Alesia.