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To: Adder

If that’s a warehouse, I’d be surprised if it hadn’t been used for grain. Roman grain ships were enormous, and Rome’s appetite for grain was unending. Grain was stockpiled during the autumn because availability was greatly reduced in the winter, as was the ability to move it by sea.


10 posted on 04/17/2014 3:47:19 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

I would agree.

With that much grain they must have had a tremendous rat problem.
All the ancients must have.


27 posted on 04/17/2014 5:33:27 PM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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