The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances; / Including Observations on Spinning, Dyeing, and Weaving.

by Clinton G. Gilroy

FIFTH CENTURY.

PRUDENTIUS, CL., A. D. 405.

The following sentence occurs in a speech of St. Lawrence at his martyrdom:

Hunc, qui superbit serico,

Quem currus inflatum vehit;

Hydrops aquosus lucido

Tendit veneno intrinsecus.

Peristeph. Hymn. ii. l. 237-240.

See him, attir’d in silken pride,

Inflated in his chariot ride;