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A61164 The plague of Athens which hapned in the second year of the Peloponnesian Warr / first described in Greek by Thucydides, then in Latin by Lucretius, now attempted in English by Tho. Sprat. Sprat, Thomas, 1635-1713.; Thucydides.; Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. 1667 (1667) Wing S5041; ESTC R31007 15,295 42

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