Seres

Or are these things small and of no account and easy for any chance comer, and ought one rather to count it blessed for the multitude of its people, and the abundance of its market, and the costliness of its buildings, and the woven stuffs of the Seres and the Babylonians, and because they roof their houses with gold, and everything is full of silver and amber and ivory—just such things as Homer d …

Or are these things small, of no account, and easily come by for any chance person, while it is for a multitude of inhabitants, an abundant market, and the lavishness of its buildings that the city must be called blessed—and for the fabrics of the Seres and the Babylonians, and because they roof their houses with gold, and everything is full of silver and amber and ivory, just such things as Homer …

quo fere modo apud Seres dicitur rebus in solitudine relictis sola mutantium religione peragi commercium.