As far as the Romans are concerned they have been best buddies with me for long time so much so that they have given me mapmaking to aid them in their war against the babs and then recently renewed it gifting me construction
. Cartouche Bee seems to be labouring under the assumption that I am paying for alliances ( I did initially give techs to draw them into war ) but now they are paying me and the original outlay was offset by helping the civs I signed alliances with in dealing with their local difficulties. I'll post a screeny of the political situation later.