Thucydides 2.48
Varvara Troitski /
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ἤρξατο δὲ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον , ὡς λέγεται , ἐξ Αἰθιοπίας τῆς ὑπὲρ Αἰγύπτου , ἔπειτα δὲ καὶ ἐς Αἴγυπτον καὶ Λιβύην κατέβη καὶ ἐς τὴν βασιλέως γῆν τὴν πολλήν . ἐς δὲ τὴν Ἀθηναίων πόλιν ἐξαπιναίως ἐσέπεσε , καὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἐν τῷ Πειραιεῖ ἥψατο τῶν ἀνθρώπων , ὥστε καὶ ἐλέχθη ὑπ’ αὐτῶν ὡς οἱ Πελοποννήσιοι φάρμακα ἐσβεβλήκοιεν ἐς τὰ φρέατα · κρῆναι γὰρ οὔπω ἦσαν αὐτόθι . ὕστερον δὲ καὶ ἐς τὴν ἄνω πόλιν ἀφίκετο , καὶ ἔθνῃσκον πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἤδη . λεγέτω μὲν οὖν περὶ αὐτοῦ ὡς ἕκαστος γιγνώσκει καὶ ἰατρὸς καὶ ἰδιώτης , ἀφ’ ὅτου εἰκὸς ἦν γενέσθαι αὐτό , καὶ τὰς αἰτίας ἅστινας νομίζει τοσαύτης μεταβολῆς ἱκανὰς εἶναι δύναμιν ἐς τὸ μεταστῆσαι σχεῖν · ἐγὼ δὲ οἷόν τε ἐγίγνετο λέξω , καὶ ἀφ’ ὧν ἄν τις σκοπῶν , εἴ ποτε καὶ αὖθις ἐπιπέσοι , μάλιστ’ ἂν ἔχοι τι προειδὼς μὴ ἀγνοεῖν , ταῦτα δηλώσω αὐτός τε νοσήσας καὶ αὐτὸς ἰδὼν ἄλλους πάσχοντας .
But
it
began
first
,
as
it
is
said
,
from
Ethiopia
,
which
is
above
Egypt
,
and
thereafter
it
went
down
to
Egypt
and
to
Libya
and
to
much
of
the
land
of
the
king
.
And
it
unexpectedly
fell
into
the
city
of
the
Athenians
,
and
it
fastened
itself
upon
the
men
in
Peiraeus
,
with
the
result
that
it
was
even
said
by
these
men
that
the
Peloponnesians
had
thrown
poison
into
the
wells
:
for
there
were
not
yet
wells
on
the
spot
.
And
late
,
it
arrived
at
the
upper
(
part
of
)
the
city
,
and
by
this
time
they
started
more
exceedingly
dying
by
a
great
(
margin
)
.
Let
other
writers
,
then
,
speak
about
this
:
how
each
came
to
be
.
Whether
physician
or
private
citizen
,
from
which
probable
(
cause
)
it
was
that
it
came
to
be
,
or
what
causes
of
such
change
he
considers
to
be
fitting
,
or
to
have
the
power
to
place
it
in
another
way
.
But
I
,
on
the
other
hand
,
will
say
how
it
happened
,
and
from
which
examined
natures
,
if
at
some
point
it
should
fall
back
upon
(
us
)
,
someone
,
having
known
beforehand
,
would
have
the
most
(
knowledge
)
not
to
be
unable
to
perceive
it
.
These
things
I
will
make
clear
,
since
I
myself
was
sick
,
and
I
myself
have
seen
others
who
have
suffered
.