[16] Libr. De morbo sacro; et libr. De aëre, locis, et aquis. [17] Observat. et Reflex, touchant la Nature, etc. de la Peste de Marseilles, pag. 47. et suiv. [18] Journal de la Contagion à Marseilles, pag. 6. [19] Lib. 2. +Hoti heteros aph' heterou, therapeias anapimplamenoi, hôsper ta probata ethnêskon; kai ton pleiston phthoron touto enepoiei; eite gar mê theloien dediotes allêlois prosienai, apôllunto erêmoi, kai oikiai pollai ekenôthêsan aporia tou therapeusantos; eite prosioien, diephtheironto, kai malista hoi aretês ti metapoioumenoi.+ The beginning of this Passage, as it here stands, though it is found thus in all the Editions of _Thucydides_, is certainly faulty, +therapeias anapimplamenoi+ being no good Sense. The Sentence I shall presently cite from _Aristotle_ shews that this may be rectified only by removing the Comma after +heterou+, and placing it after +therapeias+, for +prosanapimplêmi+ in _Aristotle_ absolutely used signifies _to infect_. With this Correction, the Sense of the Place will be as follows: _The People took Infection by their Attendance on each other, dying like Folds of Sheep. And this Effect of the Disease was the principal Cause of the great Mortality: for either the Sick were left destitute, their Friends fearing to approach them, by which means Multitudes of Families perished without Assistance; or they infected those who relieved them, and especially such, whom a Sense of Virtue and Honour obliged most to their Duty._ The Sense here ascribed to the word +anapimplêmi+ is confirmed yet more fully by a Passage in _Livy_, where he describes the Infection attending a Plague or Camp Fever, which infested the Armies of the _Carthaginians_ and _Romans_ at the Siege of _Syracuse_, in such words, as shew him to have had this Passage of _Thucydides_ in view; for he says, _aut neglecti desertique, qui incidissent, morerentur; aut assidentes curantesque eadem vi morbi repletos secum traherent_. Lib. xxv. c. 26. [20] L. 6. v. 1234. ----nullo cessabant tempore apisci Ex aliis alios avidi contagia morbi. Et v. 1241. Qui fuerant autem praesto, Contagibus ibant. [21] Sect. I. +Dia ti pote ho loimos monê tôn nosôn malista tous plêsiazontas tois therapeuomenois prosanapimplêsi?+ [22] +Peri diaphoras pyretôn, Bib. 1.+ [23] De Peste, c. iv. annot. 6. [24] Evagrii Histor. Eccles. l. iv. c. 29. [25] Gastaldi De avertenda et profliganda Peste, p. 117. [26] Ibid. p. 118. [27] Ibid. p. 117. [28] See Bills of Mortality for the Year 1665. [29] The Sweating Sickness. [30] Nat. Hist. l. vii. c. 50. [31] Histor. l. ii. [32] Histor. Ecclesiast. l. iv. c. 29. [33] De Bello Persico, l. ii. c. 22. [34] Vid. Hodges De Peste. [35] Vid. Istorie di Matteo Villanni, l. I. c. 2. [36] Mezeray Hist. de France, Tom. i. p. 798. [37] Villani, loco citato. [38] Vid. Huet. Histoire du Commerce des Anciens, p. 88. [39] Relation Historique de tout ce qui s'est passé à Marseille pendant la derniere Peste.