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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    £304 Let Lemnos all thy anger feel, And think that a new Vulcan fell, And brought with him new Anvils, and new Hell. Nay, at Athens too we give thee up, i Alf that thou find’ft in field, or Camp, or Shop, Make havock there without controul Of every ignorant and common Soul. But then, kind Plague, thy Conquefts ftop ; Let Arts, and let the Learned there efcape, Upon Minerva’s {elf commit no rape; Touch not the facred throng, : And let Apodo’s Priefts be (like him) young, ‘Let him be healthfull too, and ftrong. — But ah! too.ravenous Plague, whillt I Striveto keep off the mifery, | ‘The Learned too as faft as others round me die ; They from corruption are not free, | Are mortal though they give an immortality, oO MXVIL They turn’d their Authours oer, to try What help, what cure, what remedy All natures ftores againft this Plague fupply, And thongh befides they fhunn’d it every where, They fearch’d it in their Books, and fain would meet fehibvieattetpodey tenste eal RET RY (it there. They turn’d the Records of the ancient times, And chiefly thofe that were made famous by their ' To findifmen were punifh’d fo before, ( crimes; Bue'found not the difeafe nor cure, “* |