Sentence examples for the seres from inspiring English sources

In short, Apollodorus says that Bactriana is the ornament of Ariana as a whole; and, more than that, they extended their empire even as far as the Seres and the Phryni. 2 Their cities were Bactra (also called Zariaspa, through which flows a river bearing the same name and emptying into the Oxus), and Darapsa, and several others.

Nay, the Seres, came likewise" - Cathay and the way thither (1913).

First the Greeks, then the Romans began to speak about the Seres (people of silk), a term to designate the inhabitants of the far-off kingdom, China.

The Greek word for "silken" was σηρικός, from the name of the Seres, according to Strabo the people from whom silk was first obtained.

To the Romans, the Kudiramalai envoys related particulars about their kingdom's inhabitants, including their common life expectancy of 100 years, their government, a council of thirty persons, free civil liberties and laws pertaining to abuse of sovereign power, their trade with the Seres (Chinese), their festivals surrounding "the chase", and their delights in the elephant and the tiger.

In love with silk, the ancient Romans imagined a Far East - Serica and its inhabitants the Seres - as the land of the precious fiber and co-created with the Parthians and others a Eurasian axis of trade, known since Richthofen's studies as the Silk Road.

Some suggest the sere techniques migrated this way, as well.

All that night the sere-faced moon drifted.

"They are challenging your faith," the sere affiliate explained.

Nevertheless, the SERE experts' theories were apparently put into practice with Zubaydah's interrogation.

Undaunted by the sere land, which turns out to be hardpan, Baldasare starts digging.