The plague of Athens, which hapned [sic] in the second year of the Peloponnesian war / First described in Greek by Thucydides; then in Latine by Lucretius. Now attempted in English by Tho. Sprat.

  • Thomas Sprat
Date:
1683
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Credit: The plague of Athens, which hapned [sic] in the second year of the Peloponnesian war / First described in Greek by Thucydides; then in Latine by Lucretius. Now attempted in English by Tho. Sprat. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [r] Thucydides, LIB. IL. Asitis excellently Tranflated by M* Hobbs. fians, and their Confederates, with two thirds of their Forces, as before, invaded Attica, un- der the Conduct of Archidamus, the Son of Zeuxida- mas, King of Lacedemon, and after they had en- camped themfelves, wafted the Country about them. They had not been many days in Attica, when the Plague firft began amongft the Athenians, faid alfo to have feized formerly on divers other parts, as about Lemnos, and elfewhere ; but fo great a Plague, and Mortality of men was never remembred to have bap- ned in any place before. For at firft, neither were the Phyfcians able to cure it, through ignorance of what it was, but dyed fafteft themfelves, as being the men that moft approached the fick ; nor any other Art of man availed whatfoever. All fupplications to the Gods, and enquiries of Oracles, and whatfoever other means they ufed of that kind proved all unpro= fitable ; infomuch as fubdued with the greatnefs of the evil, they gave them all over. It began ( by report) firft, in that part of “Ethiopia that lieth upon Akgypt, and thence fell down into Agypt and I: the very beginning of Summer, the Peloponne-
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