Roman roads is an adjective phrase. Roman is an adjective that expresses nationality and modifies roads
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I wanna say both A and D but its most likely A.
The answer is that the author has to bring to life a musical composition with only words.
Beethoven was a famous composer who had multiple works of art glossing mainly over piano, and orchestra. Explaining a piece of music to others, with only words would be, in other words. . . hard.
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