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chained_bear commented on the word vicus unguentarius
"A few weeks' sailing brought the pepper to Rome's great port at Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber. From here it was shipped upriver for distribution and sale in the city's 'Perfumers' Quarter,' the vicus unguentarius."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 65
November 30, 2016