[246] Yates, p. 195.
[247] Yates, p. 198. For the value of the denarius, see Waddington, “Edit. de Diocletien,” p. 3.
[248] Gruter, tom. iii. p. 645; Yates, p. 205.
[249] Yates, p. 246. The words “silk” and “satin” are spoken of by Yates as having two derivations—the one imported to us through Greece and Italy, the other from Eastern Asia, through Slavonia, by the north of Europe.
[250] Yates, p. 231; who remarks, p. 203, that the laws of Justinian are not directed against the use of silk as a luxury, but rather as appropriating it as an imperial monopoly and source of revenue.
[251] Tom. ii. p. 106 (ed. 1630). See Yates, p. 213.
[252] Yates, p. 214.
[253] Auberville, Plate 4. Amongst these are what he calls “Consular silks.” These are, or may be, included in the palmated class, as they are evidently woven for triumphal occasions. One of the most remarkable has every mark of Oriental design. It represents a picture in a circle, repeated over and over again, of a warrior in his quadriga. Black or coloured slaves drive the horses, either running beside them or standing upon them; and other slaves carry beasts on their shoulders, and are stooping to give them drink at a trough. The space between the circles is filled in with the tree of life, growing out of its two horns. The colours are purple and gold. He places this between the first and seventh centuries (see pl. [34]).
[254] There are, however, a few that have not had the security of the tomb, and yet have survived, such as the chasuble and maniple at Bayeux, of the seventh century, and Charlemagne’s dalmatic.
[255] Roger de Wendover, “Chronica,” t. iv. p. 127, ed. Coxe. Quoted by Rock from Ralph, Dean of St. Paul’s. See Rock, Introduction, p. lv.