Put on a toga, for a man I pass.
L. iv. 2.
The texture of the Coan Minerva.
L. iv. 5.
Who gives no Coan robe, but verse instead,
Artless shall be his lyre, his verses dead.
Ibid.
The same poet (L. iv. 8. 23.) mentions “Serica carpenta,” chariots with silk curtains; and the following line (L. i. 14. 22.) shows, that couches with ornamented silk covers were then in use:
Quid revelant variis Serica textilibus?
Propertius also mentions silk under the name of the animal, which produced it: