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

XXV.

Then if that banquet will not thee suffice,

Seek out new Lands where thou maist tyrannize;

Search every forrest, every hill,

And all that in the hollow mountains dwell;

Those wild and untame troops devour,

Thereby thou wilt the rest of men secure,

And that the rest of men will thank thee for.

Let all those humane beasts be slain,

Till scarce their memory remain;