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.
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London : Printed for Joanna Brome at the Gun at the west end of St. Paul's, 1683.

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3 unnumbered leaves, 34 pages ; (8vo)

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First published 1659
"Thucydides, lib. II., as it is excellently translated by Mr. Hobbs": p.[1]-6
"The plague of Athens" (an ode): p.7-34

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Wing S5043
ESTC R32657
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), S5043

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