impeccably. In Plutarch and Appian, who are the most hostile to Caesar, there is an extended back and forth between Antony and Caesar where Caesar waits to see how the crowd reacts to him wearing the diadem and then to him rejecting it. In Plutarch, the crowd is quiet when he receives the diadem and explodes with joy when he rejects it; this happens twice, just to be sure that the people definitely didn’t want a king. In Appian, the people boo when he receives the crown and clap when he rejects it. Twice. Their versions of the incident are that Caesar and Antony were testing the people of
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