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

That when the Europæan Armies shall appear,

Their sin may be the less,

They may find all a wilderness,

And without blood the gold and silver there possess.

XXVI.

Nor is this all which we thee grant;

Rather than thou should’st full imployment want,

We do permit in Greece it self thy kingdom plant.

Ransack Lycurgus streets throughout,

They’ve no defence of walls to keep thee out.