In the last passage Silius is describing the effects of the recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius, A. D. 79. That its ashes should reach the country of the Seres, whether it was in Persia or China, would indeed have been “Monstrum admirabile!”
STATIUS.
Seric (i. e. silken) palls.
Sylvæ, iii. 4. 89.
PLUTARCH
dissuades the virtuous and prudent wife from wearing silk[37]. He mentions, that webs of silk and fine linen were at the same time thin and compact or close[38].
[37] Conjugailia Præcepta, tom. vi. p. 550. ed. Reiske.
[38] De Pythiæ Orac. c. iv. p. 557. Reiske.
JUVENAL
speaks of women,