Author: Procopius

Cited by

• Julian Stockwin (1)
  • IN: The Silk Tree (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: As about the same time there came certain monks. They promised Emperor Justinian Augustus that they would provide the means for making silk from Sinae where they had learnt the art. After they had announced these tidings, they returned thither and brought back eggs of a worm that feeds on leaves of the mulberry. Thus began the art of making silk in the Roman Empire.
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