Note 294 — Chapter II · Athens
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Just as was probably the case with the flower girls at Naukratis, the most famous centre of the garland trade, where the Thracian hetaera Rhodopis won such great fame in the days of Sappho and Aesop. See Mallet, Prem. Étab. Gr. en Égypte, p. 238, who compares the fioraie of Venice and Florence.