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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    To my Worthy and Learned Friend, Di. WALTER POPE, Late Proctor of the Univerfity of S7k, | Know not what pleafure you could take in be- {towing your Commands fo unprofitably, un lefS it be that for which Nature fometimes cherifhes and allows Monfters, The love of Vari- |— ety. This onely delight you will receive by tur- &§ ning over this rude and unpolifht Copy, andcom- || paring it with my excellent Patterns, the Greek | and Latin. By this you will fee how much a no- ble Subject is changed and disfigured by an ill 7 hand, and what reafon Alexander had to forbid - io his Pi€ture to be drawn but by fome celebrated | Pencil. In Greek Thucidides fo well and fo lively || expreffes it, that I know not which is more a Po- |e em, his defcription, or that of Lucretius, ‘Though 9 it muft be faid, that the Alifforian had a vatt ac- vantage over the Poet ; He having been prefent on the place, and aflaulted'by the difeafe him‘elr, had the horrour familiar to his Eyes, and all tac tem ihapes