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On #BookshopDay2026, a rather charming reconstruction of the shop of a Roman bookseller (bibliopola = βιβλιοπώλης). According to Martial, there many such shops (as well as cobblers!) on the Argiletum, the street that took you into the forum from the Subura, Rome’s crowded slum district.