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A peculiarly Roman institution was the forum. During the Regal period, fora were marketplaces dedicated to certain products. The Forum Boarium, near the docks on the Tiber, was the place to buy and sell livestock. If you wished to purchase herbs and vegetable, you would go to the Forum Holitorium. Fish were sold at the Forum Piscarium. Pork, a Roman staple, was sold at the Forum Suarium and wine at the Forum Vinarium. Roofed marketplaces were known as macella. Many fora and macella existed throughout the city and its environs, but most have vanished. www.chi-rhogroup.com