Carmen. xxiii. l. 423-427.
ALCIMUS AVITUS, CL., A. D. 490.
Describing the rich man in the parable of Lazarus, this author says:
Ipse cothurnatus gemmis et fulgidus auro
Serica bis coctis mutabat tegmina blattis.
L. iii. 222.
In jewell’d buskins and a blaze of gold,
Silk shawls, or twice in scarlet dipt, he wore.
Avitus also mentions “the soft fleeces sent by the Seres.”