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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    ■(/ fy pty, firmant ofSuch asjhould take can of them. If they forbtn Hit thm they died themfelves, and principally the honedcil Men: tot ou. °b they would not [pare thsmfelv.es, ■ hut went m unto their >rums, efpe / after it was cole ttL thatpaf, that even their DomeBuh weaned with the Lamentations of them that dud, and overcome waa * j- g- ea n j ? the Calamity, were no longer moved therewith· But t o^t.- we covered, had much Companion hath on them thae dyei, an- on t sen . layfick, as having both known the Mifery thmfihes., Λη*η91?£\ fhU to the like danger : For this\Difeafe never took any Man time fo as to be mortal. Jfni thefe Men were both by others^ «« f **?' py, and they alp themfehes, through exetfs of prefent. joy, cone nj of light hope never to die of any other Sicknejs here a) te>. fent Affliction, the reception of the Country People, ana oft oef into, the City, opprefed both them, and much more the People .hemfiljes that Jo came in. For having no tioufes, but dwelling at that time of year in fiifling Booths, the Mortality was now without a orm , ? y ing Men lay tumbling one upon another sn the Streets, an l »n V ^ , about every Conduit through defire of Water. The Temp.es a β , they dwelt in Tents were all full of the dead that died wit inn an , , opprejfed with the violence of the Calamity and not nowing w ■ > Men grew car die Jr, both of Holfy and Prophane things ad e. +<iAr.e which they formerly ufed touching Funerals, were all now >o °en, e~ y one burying where he could find room. And many j or want oj td.iyS nJce- after /0 many deaths before, were forced to become itnpu-den* in t -ri of their Friends •Forwhen one had made a Funeral Pile,anot ee> ^c^tng * . him,would throw on his dead and give it fire. And when one was in urn Sj another would come and having cafi thereon him wmm >oe car, te , g way again· And the great licentioufneji, which alfo in ot o.r .n. vjed in the-City, began at firfi from this Difeafe. For thru w -co a before would diffmhle, and not acknowledge to be done j or vM^mbr* he ditr.fi now do freely, feeing before his eyes (itch quick revocation, o, ■ Rich dying, and Men worth nothing inheriting their Epatss , ιηο. i they juflified afpeedy fruition of their Goods,even for their pLea\are,as ^ ·η that thought they held their Lives but by the day· Asf> pains, nem was for way d in any action of Honour, to take any, becaufe t,o.y *00 f uncertain whether they jhoulddie or not before they atchisve it. -t any man knew to be delightful, and to.be* profit able to p e afire, Jfj made both profitable and honourable. Neither the fear oj t,oe o , Laws of men, awed any man. Not bfif former, becaufe t oeyconc^ . was alike to worfhip or not worfbip, from feeing that ai *e »- ed : Nor the latte/, becaufe no man expeBed that. tbere^ receivedpunifiment of his Crimes by Judgmen.■· Eu r n *. was now over their heads feme far greater 'judgment iecree fifi^ before which fell, they thought to enjoy feme littlega) t of t lu st· T4