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

XIX.

Mountains of bones and carcases,

The street, the Market-place possess,

Threatning to raise a new Acropolis.

Here lies a mother and her child,

The infant suck’d as yet, and smil’d,

But strait by its own food was kill’d.

There parents hugg’d their children last,

Here parting lovers last embrac’d,

But yet not parting neither,