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The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables — piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes ... long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness....

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Phaedrus

Phaedrus (c. 15 BC - c. AD 50), Roman fabulist, was probably a thracian slave , born in Pydna of Macedonia (Roman province) and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius and Claudius.He is recognized as the first writer to latinize entire books of fables, using the iambic metre Greek prose of the Aesop tales.

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