Category: History - Ancient

The Plague of Athens, which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warre First described in Greek by Thucydides; then in Latin by Lucretius. Now attempted in English

Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679; Thucydides, 456? BCE-396 BCE· 3 chapters· 7,435 words

I Know not what pleasure you could take in bestowing your commands so unprofitably, unless it be that for which Nature sometimes cherishes and allows Monsters, The love of Variety. This onely delight you will receive by turning over this rude and unpolisht Copy, and comparing...

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I Know not what pleasure you could take in bestowing your commands so unprofitably, unless it be that for which Nature sometimes cherishes and allows Monsters, The love of Varie...

2. Part 2

_Minerva_ started when she heard the noise, And dying mens confused voice. From Heaven in haste she came to see What was the mighty prodigie. Upon the Castle pinacles she sate,...

3. Part 3

The woods gave fun’ral piles no more, The dead the very fire devour, And that almighty Conqueror over-power. The noble and the common dust Into each others graves are thrust, No...