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The Chinese were also strongly attracted by the tall and powerful horses ( named " Heavenly horses ") in the possession of the Dayuan, which were of capital importance in fighting the nomadic Xiongnu.
The Chinese subsequently sent numerous embassies, around ten every year, to these countries and as far as Seleucid Syria.
" Thus more embassies were dispatched to Anxi, Yancai later joined the Alans, Lijian under the Seleucids, Tiaozhi, and Tianzhu India … As a rule, rather more than ten such missions went forward in the course of a year, and at the least five or six.
" ( Hou Hanshu, Later Han History ).
The Roman historian Florus also describes the visit of numerous envoys, including Seres, to the first Roman Emperor Augustus, who reigned between 27 BC and 14 AD:
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