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The plague of Athens, which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian War. First described in Greek by Thucydides; then in Latine by Lucretius
Sprat, Thomas (1635-1713); Thucydides; Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
1683
Hobbes' version of Thucydides precedes Sprat's poem.
A discourse of the contests and dissensions between the nobles and the commons in Athens and Rome : with the consequences they had upon both those states
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
1701
Written by Jonathan Swift. Cf. ESTC. Teerink & Scouten identify this as the "second issue," largely reset. The unbroken rules on the t.p. and the reading "be worth remarking" (p.9, line 7) are point...