Queen Teuta ~ Comfort Colors Tee

Rome Sent Two Envoys ~ Illyria Sent Them Home

In 230 BC the Roman Senate sent two envoys to Queen Teuta of Illyria to demand that her people stop raiding ships. Polybius records that she refused, on the grounds that Illyrian rulers did not police their subjects' private plunder. Rome did not take it well, and the First Illyrian War began in 229 BC. She had been asked, and she had answered.

• For the woman whose no is final: A gift for the friend who declines the group trip without an excuse, the manager who ends the meeting, and the aunt nobody has ever talked into anything.
• Diplomacy, brief: Rome brought a demand dressed as a request, and she treated it like the request.
• Enthroned in: Part of Pirate Queens, where the superpower showed up and left with homework.