[312] J. Bowring, The Decimal System, London, 1854, p. 2.
[313] H. A. Giles, lecture at Columbia University, March 12, 1902, on "China and Ancient Greece."
[314] Giles, loc. cit.
[315] E.g., the names for grape, radish (la-po, ῥάφη), water-lily (si-kua, "west gourds"; σικύα, "gourds"), are much alike. [Giles, loc. cit.]
[316] Epistles, I, 1, 45-46. On the Roman trade routes, see Beazley, loc. cit., Vol. I, p. 179.
[317] Am. Journ. of Archeol., Vol. IV, p. 366.
[318] M. Perrot gives this conjectural restoration of his words: "Ad me ex India regum legationes saepe missi sunt numquam antea visae apud quemquam principem Romanorum." [M. Reinaud, "Relations politiques et commerciales de l'empire romain avec l'Asie orientale," Journ. Asiat., Vol. I (6), p. 93.]
[319] Reinaud, loc. cit., p. 189. Florus, II, 34 (IV, 12), refers to it: "Seres etiam habitantesque sub ipso sole Indi, cum gemmis et margaritis elephantes quoque inter munera trahentes nihil magis quam longinquitatem viae imputabant." Horace shows his geographical knowledge by saying: "Not those who drink of the deep Danube shall now break the Julian edicts; not the Getae, not the Seres, nor the perfidious Persians, nor those born on the river Tanaïs." [Odes, Bk. IV, Ode 15, 21-24.]
[320] "Qua virtutis moderationisque fama Indos etiam ac Scythas auditu modo cognitos pellexit ad amicitiam suam populique Romani ultro per legatos petendam." [Reinaud, loc. cit., p. 180.]
[321] Reinaud, loc. cit., p. 180.