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

by Thomas Sprat; Thomas Hobbes; Thucydides

In form of Serpent, brought new poysons with him too.

XVI.

The streams did wonder, that so soon

As they were from their Native mountains gone,

They saw themselves drunk up, and fear

Another Xerxes Army near.

Some cast into the Pit the Urn,

And drink it dry at its return;

Again they drew, again they drank;