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.

  • Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.
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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    [18 J Here feven days it rul’d and fway’d, And oftner kill'd becaufe it death fo long delay’d. But if through ftrength and heat of age, The Body overcame its rage, The Plague departed as the Devil doth, When driven by Prayers away he goeth. If Prayers and Heaven do him controul, And if he cannot have the Soul, Himfelf out of the roof or window throws, And will not all his labour lofe, But takes away with him part of the houfe: So here the vanquifh’d evil took from them Who conquer'd it fome part, fome Limb ; Some loft the ufe of Hands or Eyes, Some Armes, fome Legs, fome Thighs, Some all their lives betore forgot, . Their minds were but one darker blot; Thofe various Pictures in the Head, And all the numerous fhapes were fled ; And now the ranfack’d memory Languifh'd in naked poverty, Had loft its mighty treafury ; They paft the Lerhe Lake, although they did not die. XIV. ——— Se See. Sad IRIS ne Se nt = ps aaa | eng