NOTE: While there were widely-recognized iconographies for representations of imperial power (the eagle, Jupiter's thunderbolt, SPQR), there was no standardized flag. as we would recognize the concept, for the Roman Empire.
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No standardised flag makes this equally correct.
You monster, I can't believe you would just chop an eagle's toes off like that
That's where the flavour is.
The true Roman way: cooking with weird bodyparts from exotic animals.
Flamingo tongue, anyone?
There's an old saying in Gallia. I know it's in Dalmatia, probably in Gallia: Si vis bellum, para bellum