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\\\"Since the seven kings of earliest Rome, the term \\\'\\\'rex\\\'\\\' had been despised to such an extent that even such an unabashed monarchist as Caligula did not use the term.\\\" (Wilkinson, Sam. \\\'\\\'Republicanism during the Early Roman Empire\\\'\\\', Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012. p. 26)

So yes, it was an insult, at least until Seneca started using it as a term of approbation rather than insult, and that was several decades after Jesus\\\' time.
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