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[4] And, as Thucydides shows, 1 that calamity which, at the beginning of the Peloponnesian war, harassed the Athenians with a grievous kind of sickness, gradually crept [p. 489] all the way from the torrid region of Africa and laid hold upon Attica.

1 Cf. Thuc. ii. 4, 7.

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