ed 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 mone ton noson malista tous
plesiazontas tois therapeuomenois prosanapimplesi?+

[22] +Peri diaphoras pyreton, 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 passe a Marseille pendant
la derniere Peste.

[40] Vid. Serv. Comment. in Virgil. AEneid, l. iii. v. 57.

[41] This was a kind of _Expiatory Sacrifice_, as the _Scape-Goat_ among
the Jews, _Levit._ xvi. And the Wretches thus devoted to dye for the
Sins of the People were called +Katharmata+, _Purgations_. Vid.
Aristophan. in Plut. ver. 454. et in Equit. ver. 1133. et Scholiast.
ibid. _Suidas_ adds that when the Sacrificed Person was cast into the
Water, these Words were pronounced, +Peripsema hemon genou+, _Be
thou our Cleansing_. And I observe, by the by, that the Apostle _Paul_,
1 _Corinth._ iv. 13. alluding very probably to this wicked Custom, makes
use of both these Words, where speaking of himself in the plural number,
he says, +Hos perikatharmata tou kosmou egenethemen, panton peripsema+;
for some of the best MSS. instead of +Os perikatharmata+, read +Hosper+,
or +Hosperei katharmata+; that is, _We have been looked upon as Wretches
fit only to be Sacrificed for the Public good, and cast out of the World
by way of Attonement for the Sins of the whole Society._

[42] Vid. Le Brun Voyage au Levant, c. 38.

[43] Vid. Ludolf. Histor. AE