The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.274
The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.274
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² Seres as Chinese first in Augustan literature. The earliest mentions of Chinese silk are Caesar’s alleged silk awnings, the Parthian silken banners at Carrhae, and Cleopatra’s silks (Lucan, *Phars.* x, 141–3). Before this all silk in the West came from the wild silkworm of Western Asia; *Hou-han-shu* chap. CXVIII, tr. E. Chavannes, *T’oung Pao* VIII, 1907, see p. 184; Blümner, *Serica* in PW; Tarn, *Hell. Civ.*² pp. 224 sq.