The plague of Ahtens [sic], which hapened [sic] in the second year of the Peloponnesian war / First described in Greek by Thucydides; then in Latine by Lucretius. Since attempted in English. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Rochester.

  • Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.
Date:
1709
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Credit: The plague of Ahtens [sic], which hapened [sic] in the second year of the Peloponnesian war / First described in Greek by Thucydides; then in Latine by Lucretius. Since attempted in English. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Thomas Lord Bishop of Rochester. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ι9 xxr. There was no number now of death. The Sifters fcarce flood ftill themfelvestobreath ® The Sifters now quite wearied In cutting Angle Thread, Began at once to part whole Lo©msa One ftroke did give whole Houfes dooms \ Now dy’d the frofty hairs, The aged and decripid years. They fell and only beggd of Fate, Some lew Months more, but ’twas alas too btc, , Then Death as if aiham’d of that A Conqueft fo degenerate. Cut off the young andiuftytoO| The young were reckoning o’er What happy days, what Joys they had in flora 5 But Fate e’er they had finifti’d their Account, them Hew The wretched Ufurer died, And had no timeto tell where he hisTreafureshid The Merchant did behold His Ships return with Spice and Gold; He iaw’t and turn’d alide his head Nor thank’d the Gods, but fell amidft his Riches dead0 xxii. The Meetings and Affemblies ceafe, no more The People throng about the Orator, No courfe of Jufticedid appear. No noife of Lawyers fill’d the Ear, - The Senate caft away The R*obe of Honour, and obey Deaths more refiftlefs fway, Whilft that with Di&ratorian power Doth all the great and leffer Officers devour* No Magiftrates did walk about; No Purple aw’d the Rout, The Commo· People too A Purple of their own did (hew, 5. And all their Bodies o’er. The ruling Colours bore) No Judge, no Legiflatours fie Since this new Draco came. And hariher Laws did frame. Laws that like his in Blood are The Benches and the pleading-place they About the Streets they run and raves The madneii which great Sc/a^didof lat^ But counterfeit·