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Pausanias, Description of Greece, Elis 2, chapter 26 (search)
ax, both the ordinary and the fine variety, 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 inseSeres an insect which the Greeks call ser, though the Seres themselves give it another name. Its size is twice that of the largest beetle, but in other respects it is like the spiders that spin under trees, and furthermore it has, like the spider, eight feet. TSeres themselves give it another name. Its size is twice that of the largest beetle, but in other respects it is like the spiders that spin under trees, and furthermore it has, like the spider, eight feet. These creatures are reared by the Seres, who build them houses adapted for winter and for summer. The product of the creatures, a clue of fine thread, is found rolled round their feet. They keep them for four years, feeding them on millet, but in thand, just as in Egypt the Delta is surrounded by the Nile and by no sea. Such another island is Seria said to be. These Seres themselves are of Aethiopian race, as are the inhabitants of the neighboring islands, Abasa and Sacaea. Some say, howeve
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 10, line 194 (search)
oe'er thou art 'Yet art thou sought, nor yet has nation claimed 'In pride of place thy river as its own. ' Yet shall I tell, so far as has the god, ' Who veils thy fountain, given me to know, 'Thy progress. Daring to upraise thy banks ''Gainst fiery Cancer's heat, thou tak'st thy rise 'Beneath the zenith: straight towards the north 'And mid Bootes flowing; to the couch 'Bending, or to the risings, of the sun 'In sinuous bends alternate; just alike 'To Araby's peoples and to Libyan sands. 'By Seres The Seres are, of course, the Chinese. The ancients seem to have thought that the Nile came from the east. But it is possible that there was another tribe of this name dwelling in Africa. first beheld, yet know they not Whence art thou come; and with no native stream Strik'st thou the Ethiop fields. Nor knows the world 'To whom it owes thee. Nature ne'er revealed 'Thy secret origin, removed afar. 'Nor did she wish thee to be seen of men ' While still a tiny rivulet, but preferred ' Their