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Notes cover Strabo’s information about India and the ‘Seres,’ silk and wool sources, debates on corrupt readings, and comparisons of distances and magnitudes attributed to Megasthenes.
error in the text. Groskurd reads 20; but Kramer refers to Arrian’s expedition of Alexander, v. 20, and suggests that we may here read 100 (ρ) instead of 200 (σ). [376] The Seres are here meant, whose country and capital still preserve the name of Serhend. It was the Serica India of the middle ages, and to this country Justinian sent to procure silkworms’ eggs, for the purpose of introducing them into Europe. Strabo…