Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Seres” in book 6, chapter 26, section 6 of Pausanias, Description of Greece:
...ariety, are sown by those whose soil is suited to grow it, the threads from which the Seres make the dresses are produced from no bark, but in a different way as follows. There is in the land of the Seres an insect which the Greeks call ser, though the Seres themselves give it another name.
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